Positioning pagination in a header

[Dungarven]

I am creating a master page for a book. I have made my headers. Now I would like to add page numbers that will appear in the top corners of the pages. However, when I insert page numbers into the header, I have to use a tab to separate the title in my header from the number #. Then my heading is no longer centered. If I create a separate text box for the page numbering, again my header text box and lettering is no longer centered. Could some kind soul please tell me if it possible to resolve this problem. I could place the page numbers at the bottom of the page, but that is not where I would like to have them!

Many thanks.

[DWright]

Hi @Dungarven,

Welcome to the forum

Can you please post a screen shot showing this issue 

[GarryP]

Does my attached image help?
Tab inserted at start of text, another tab inserted between Section Title and Page Number.
Tab stop 1 is centred at 80mm and tab stop 2 is right-justified at 160mm (the right edge of the frame).

[thomaso]

2 hours ago, Dungarven said:

If I create a separate text box for the page numbering, again my header text box and lettering is no longer centered.

By what property does an extra frame for the page number influence the header's centred justification?
Below the header is centred while the page number gets auto-aligned at the outer edge of each page:

[Old Bruce]

4 hours ago, Dungarven said:

If I create a separate text box for the page numbering, again my header text box and lettering is no longer centered. Could some kind soul please tell me if it possible to resolve this problem.

With the two text frames your header text frame can be as wide as the page and the page number text frame can be overtop or underneath that one. Here is how I do it using two frames, I also use separate alignment for the texts, one for the Page header and one for the page number (page number uses the Away from spine and header uses centred).

Be aware that with Centred alignment if the header paragraph has an indent that distance will be included in the calculation for the centring. 

 

[Dungarven]

Many thanks to all! I hadn't understood that you could superimpose a second text box on the original! Thanks for clearing that up. I have now managed to get in a second text box in place without disturbing/distorting the one underneath as happened before. Your images were very helpful. Useful to know about tabs too. Thanks guys! You rule!