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Last updated 11/30/2015
3 Specify options, and then click OK. See Document numbering options .
A section indicator icon appears above the page icon in the Pages panel, indicating the start of a new section.
Note: If a number or letter appears before the current page number you inserted, it means a section prefix is included. If
you don’t want this prefix, deselect Include Prefix When Numbering Pages in the Numbering & Section Options dialog box.
Common page numbering tasks
InDesign offers several different features that help you create page numbering effects.
Create text and text frames
Create text frames
Text in InDesign resides inside containers called text frames. (A text frame is similar to a text box in QuarkXPress and
a text block in Adobe PageMaker.)
There are two types of text frames: frame grids and plain text frames. Frame grids are the kind of text frames specific to
Asian-language composition in which character emboxes and spacing are displayed as grids. Empty text frames in
which no grid is displayed are plain text frames.
Like graphics frames, text frames can be moved, resized, and changed. The tool with which you select a text frame
determines the kind of changes you can make:
• Use the Type tool to enter or edit text in a frame.
• Use the Selection tool for general layout tasks such as positioning and sizing a frame.
• Use the Direct Selection tool to alter a frame’s shape.
• Use the Horizontal Grid tool or the Vertical Grid tool to create a frame grid. See Create frame grids.
• Use the Type tool to create a plain text frame for horizontal text, and the Vertical Type tool to create a plain
text frame for vertical text. Use the same tools to edit existing text in a frame.
Text frames can also be connected to other text frames so that the text in one frame can flow into another frame. Frames
that are connected in this way are threaded. Text that flows through one or more threaded frames is called a story. When
you place (import) a word-processing file, it comes into your document as a single story, regardless of the number of
frames it may occupy.
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Add page numbering to documents in a book. See Number pages, chapters, and paragraphs in a book.
Add section numbers and chapter numbers. See Add section and chapter numbering .
Create running headers or running footers that use text variables such
as the create date, filename, or the current heading or title.
See Create headers and footers and Create and edit text variables.
Create a “Page x of y” effect in which x is the current page and y is the
total number of pages.
Insert a Current Page Number marker for x, and insert the Last Page
Number text variable for y (choose Type > Text Variables > Insert
Variable > Last Page Number).
Create a “Continued on page x” story jump. See Add automatic page numbers for story jumps .