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Custom page numbering tricks - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
Custom page numbering tricks
- [Instructor] You probably already know how to make automatic page numbers in InDesign. You just go to the Type menu, come down to Insert Special Character, then choose the Markers submenu, and finally choose Current Page Number. And normally you'd put that on a Master page. But sometimes you need something different. Like maybe you want to number every spread instead of every page. Or like in this document, I want to number all of the document pages, but I want to skip over this pink section opener. I want the numbers to simply skip right past it. Now InDesign's current page number feature is awesome, but it's not very flexible. You can't skip over pages, for example. So in situations like this I'll often use a different kind of numbering, paragraph numbering. Here's how it works. First, I'm going to jump to the Master page simply by double-clicking on it here inside the Pages panel. Now I'm going to use the Type…
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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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