daveedb Posted June 24, 2022 Posted June 24, 2022 Hi, I have an issue here. I have tried a few "number" of things but I do not seem to get through to what I need to do. I have set up my document -a small pamphlet- with about 24 pages. I divided it in three parts. I have made a number of master pages to set up text boxes for titles for the three parts. I need page numbers at the top for the three parts eg: 1-1, 1-2, 1-3 etc then 2-1. 2-2, etc then 3-3 and so on. The way I set up these top numbers is by typing 1- or 2- or 3- and then entering the page number through fields. This works great. (although it may not be "right"...) But I also want continual page numbers at the bottom of the pages. I have made a separate master pages for these. This is when the issue happens. Whenever the bottom page number changes to greater 1-24 the top number keeps on counting the same way. I wish though that the top number would just stop counting when the first part is done and then restart at 1 for the second part (or segment) and so on. I also observed that one method follows the other; I mean when I use the section panel to restart numbering to another section the bottom number follows that one too. So instead of having the number 24 at the end of the document I have 6 or 8 depending how long the last segment was. Any way around this? Sincerely asking, 😕 Denis Quote
Komatös Posted June 24, 2022 Posted June 24, 2022 Hi, @daveedband welcome to the forums. You can control the sections with the section manager. However, there is also a small catch here. There is no possibility to set the page number in the section and an absolute, consecutive page number. Quote MAC mini M4 | MacOS Sequoia 15.5 | 16 GB RAM | 256 GB SSD AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | Sapphire Nitro+ RX 9060 XT 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 24H2 (26100.4351) Windows 11 Pro on VMWare Virtual Machine (on Mac) Affinity Suite V 2.6.3 & Beta 2.6 (latest) Interested in a free (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF No backup, no pity.
daveedb Posted June 24, 2022 Author Posted June 24, 2022 Thank you for your response. I already went the avenue of section manager. I end up with the same result so far... I may not understand it all since I am fairly new to Publisher... Quote
walt.farrell Posted June 24, 2022 Posted June 24, 2022 Each page has only one page number. It signs like you want it to have to numbers, one running sequentially from 1 to n, and one that resets to 1 for each section. That's not supported. There are other ways you could do it. For example, a text frame on each page just for the sequential number, with all those linked together. You make it small enough it can only hold one number, and paste a set of numbers into the first frame. They will flow through so that only one shows on each page. You'd probably put that frame on a Master Page. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
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