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Adding page numbering

Adding page numbering - InDesign Tutorial

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Adding page numbering

- When you're working on a book or a magazine or anything that has more than a few pages you owe it to your readers to add page numbers. But it's a hassle to add page numbers to each and every page, right? Well fortunately, InDesign makes page numbers easy. In this document we want pages down by the footers on almost every page, so where should we put them? That's right, the master page. So I'm going to come over here, open my pages panel, and double-click on A-Master. That jumps to this master page, and I'd like my page numbers at the bottom of the page down here. I could put it inside this text frame, but in this case, I'm going to grab the type tool and I'm going to drag out a new frame over here. Let's zoom in on this by pressing command+4 or control+4 on Windows. Now, I need to type my page number inside this frame. So what should I type, the actual page number? No, you don't want to type real numbers here.…

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