Chris26 Posted September 10, 2022 Share Posted September 10, 2022 Seriously? I thought these instructions would be sooo simple, so straight forward. To add page numbering: On the Pages panel, select a master page from the Master Page window. Create a text frame to place your page number field and optionally extra header/footer text. From the Text Menu, select Insert>Fields>Page Number. A hash symbol (#) indicates the page number. To change page numbering style: On the Pages panel, select Section Manager. From the Number style pop-up menu, choose from various standard numbering schemes such as Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3), upper/lowercase Roman (I, II, III, i, ii, iii), alphabetic letters (A, B, C, a, b, c) and more. I have one master page and every page is linked. Straight forward. I followed the above to the letter but got nothing but either a hash symbol on every page, then every page labelled as Page One, then Page #, then fiddled with everything. Please please put me out of sheer misery here - I have solved more complex issues than this so I am infuriated, these instructions must miss something so utterly very obvious. Thanks Chris Quote Microsoft - Like entering your home and opening the stainless steel kitchen door, with a Popup: 'Do you really want to open this door'? Then looking for the dishwasher and finding it stored in the living room where you have to download a water supply from the app store, then you have to buy microsoft compliant soap, remove the carpet only to be told that it is glued to the floor.. Don't forget to make multiple copies of your front door key and post them to all who demand access to all the doors inside your home including the windows and outside shed. Apple - Like entering your home and opening the oak framed Kitchen door and finding the dishwasher right in front you ready to be switched on, soap supplied, and water that comes through a water softener. Ah the front door key is yours and it only needs to open the front door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted September 10, 2022 Share Posted September 10, 2022 1 hour ago, Chris26 said: From the Text Menu, select Insert>Fields>Page Number. A hash symbol (#) indicates the page number. I am assuming you just left the # that was (should have been) inserted alone. In other words you didn't replace it with an actual # symbol. Go to Text > Highlight Fields and make sure it is checked. The #'s background (page number) should be a different colour from the rest of the text. Chris26 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted September 10, 2022 Share Posted September 10, 2022 If you could upload a sample of just a master page & maybe one document page so we could see how you are setting pages numbers, it would probably make it obvious what you are doing wrong. Chris26 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris26 Posted September 11, 2022 Author Share Posted September 11, 2022 Thanks RCR but I have solved half the issue. Old Bruce: I was drawing a text frame amd insertig the hash symbol - tthis was what I thought the instructions meant. Now I have another problem - 1. I need page number 1 to start on physical page two. But it will not let me access the greyed out area in thesection manager. 2. Instead what it has done is put page number 2 on physical page two. Physical page one has its own text box and is not goverend by the master page. 3. If I change the section manager to start page numbering on page two, guess what, it gives that page a number 3 ??? Now how is this logical ??? (IS it me. or why is this page numbering so hard to figure out, prsonally I think the instructions should be clear) ? Chris Quote Microsoft - Like entering your home and opening the stainless steel kitchen door, with a Popup: 'Do you really want to open this door'? Then looking for the dishwasher and finding it stored in the living room where you have to download a water supply from the app store, then you have to buy microsoft compliant soap, remove the carpet only to be told that it is glued to the floor.. Don't forget to make multiple copies of your front door key and post them to all who demand access to all the doors inside your home including the windows and outside shed. Apple - Like entering your home and opening the oak framed Kitchen door and finding the dishwasher right in front you ready to be switched on, soap supplied, and water that comes through a water softener. Ah the front door key is yours and it only needs to open the front door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted September 11, 2022 Share Posted September 11, 2022 Use the Add Section icon to add another section from pages 2 to 40 Restart page numbering at 1 for that section Chris26 and Old Bruce 1 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted September 11, 2022 Share Posted September 11, 2022 2 hours ago, Chris26 said: I was drawing a text frame amd insertig the hash symbol - tthis was what I thought the instructions meant. The instructions say that on the Text Menu, you need to select Insert>Fields>Page Number. Since there is no "#" item on that menu, I think it should be fairly clear to most users how this works. Maybe not quite so clear for the section manager, though... Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris26 Posted September 11, 2022 Author Share Posted September 11, 2022 Carl123 Thank you. Finally. RCR, I suppose I am not most users, many instructions from many sources I have read hundreds, but once in a while the instructions don't follow my logic. It happens. Quote Microsoft - Like entering your home and opening the stainless steel kitchen door, with a Popup: 'Do you really want to open this door'? Then looking for the dishwasher and finding it stored in the living room where you have to download a water supply from the app store, then you have to buy microsoft compliant soap, remove the carpet only to be told that it is glued to the floor.. Don't forget to make multiple copies of your front door key and post them to all who demand access to all the doors inside your home including the windows and outside shed. Apple - Like entering your home and opening the oak framed Kitchen door and finding the dishwasher right in front you ready to be switched on, soap supplied, and water that comes through a water softener. Ah the front door key is yours and it only needs to open the front door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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