Page Numbering ?

[Chris26]

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

[Old Bruce]

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.

[R C-R]

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]

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

[carl123]

Use the Add Section icon to add another section from pages 2 to 40

Restart page numbering at 1 for that section

[R C-R]

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...

[Chris26]

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.