Then, How do I put page numbers on certain pages? Click your cursor on any page in the numbered section. If you’re changing the numbering options for any page other than the first page of the document, make sure that Start Section is selected. How do you create sections in InDesign? Define sections in a documentĬhoose Layout > Numbering & Section Options, or choose Numbering & Section Options in the Pages panel. The Section prefix is made up of three parts: Text Before, Field, and Text After. The prefix value also appears in a Table of Contents that includes page numbers. Just so, What does Section prefix mean? The Section prefix is a label that precedes the automatic page numbering in Adobe InDesign. If you want numbering to start with 1 on the second page, go to Page Number > Format Page Numbers, and set Start at to 0. If you don’t want a page number to appear on the first page, select Different First Page. Select Insert > Page Number, and then choose the location and style you want. Fixed it.Ĭonsidering this, How do I start page numbers on the second page? Especially when the same app has lovely functionality elsewhere, like mathematical operations available in its numeric fields.Designer figured it out - I had to go to InDesign>Preferences>General> and then choose Page Numbering/Section Numbering. To switch in to a text-supportive app and have to manually trigger spell-check when even a web browser does it as you type seem odd. Largely I think because we're all increasingly coming to expect these basic functions from the very computers that run the apps. That they only partially support these secondary activities is understandable but to find full, modern functionality limited not in some exotic areas but in some pretty basic ones (eg- continuous spell-check in AI, etc) therefore becomes irritating. The fact is these apps are used by millions for these activities and sold on the basis that they support them, even if they were not initially created to cater for them. These people are technically right (the worst kind of right). "Photoshop's not really for digital painting." etc. "Illustrator's not really for text editing" "well Acrobats not really for making PDFs" I often hear that I'm not using an app "for it's intended purpose" eg: Make life more complicated because you don't like to learn another app? I don't get it why people would even want to use Illustrator in a context of making books with left and right pages, while InDesign has several features to take care of the layout in such a situation. There would be quite a few additions to it in order to be shipped as an Illustrator update, which might make it slightly more complicated. So when adding functions you have to be careful if they make sense in the context.Ĭarlos' script is great, but when you change the order of artboards, the numbering doesn't get updated, which would be useful. They have to be maintained and maybe even updated. They have to be taken care of when updating. It always strikes me as odd when apps refuse to cater for functionalities that lie within such easy reach, right there in the OS.ĪI is already keeping track of both the artboard numbers and the layer numbers.Īll the features added have to be tested against existing functions.