You can see there is page number 1.Īnd now if you scroll down you can see there is a page number in the sequence. Now double-click on the page 1 for selecting it.
Now I will enable the Control panel from the scroll-down list of the Window menu so that we have a Paragraph Formatting panel.Īnd from this panel, I will choose the right aling option for this text and it will align with the right side of this text frame. Here in this box choose the Bottom option in the Align option and once we choose this option our text will align at the bottom of the text frame. Once we click on this option a ‘Text Frame Options’ will be open. So go to the Object menu and choose ‘Text Frame Options’ from the list of it. You can see the text is aligned with the top left corner of this text frame but we need to place it at the bottom right corner of the margin of this page. If I increase the size of the text you can see it clearly. Once you choose this option a letter will be inserted automatically in your selected text frame. Now click on the Current Page Number option of new scroll down list or you can simply press Ctrl + Alt + Shift + N keys of keyboard. Go to ‘Insert Special Character’ option then ‘Markers’ option of its scroll-down list. This even works when you create a table of contents or index.Now I will take the Type tool and draw a text frame here like this.īeing selected for this text go to the Type menu and click on it. That means go to the first page, no matter what it’s called.)Īnyway, now you have prefixes on your pages and all is happy in the world. That’s because the first page is “A-1” or “B-1” or whatever. You cannot just type “1” to jump to the first page of the document anymore. But if you press Command-J or Ctrl+J for Go To Page, you’re going to have trouble. Double-clicking on the page in the Pages panel always takes you there.
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(Quick tangent on how to get back to the document page. (Shortcut: just type Command-Option-Shift-N, or Ctrl+Alt+Shift+N.) When you return to the document page, you’ll see the page number with the prefix: Now, I go to the Master Page, add a new text frame, and use the Type > Insert Special Characters > Markers > Current Page Number feature to add the automatic page number. Finally, I like seeing the section prefixes inside the Pages panel, so I turn on the Include Prefix when Numbering Pages checkbox. More after the jump! Continue reading below↓įree and Premium members see fewer ads! Sign up and log-in today.īecause we want each document to restart at page number 1, I’ll also choose the Start Page Numbering option and type 1 into the field. Once you have that Numbering and Section Options dialog box open, you can add a letter in the “Section Prefix” field:
(That black triangle shows up at the beginning of each section if you have more than one section in a single document, you’ll see more than one of them.) You can get there by choosing it from the Layout menu, or (what I do) just double-click the little black triangle above the first page in your book in the Pages panel. To achieve this in InDesign, you need to open the Numbering and Section Options dialog box for each document in the book. Then the page numbering should be A-1, A-2, and so on in the first document… in the second document it would be B-1, B-2, and so on… We have several articles about page numbers already, but I want to focus on one aspect of numbering (or adding “folios” as some call them): adding prefixes.įor example, let’s say you want each document in a book to have a prefix such as A, B, C, and so on. For a page-layout program, adding page numbers can be surprisingly confusing! But fear not, it’s not as bad as it sometimes seems.