Books, Section manager and chapters not quite working

[Bryce]

I'm new to using the book function in Publisher. I've watched the videos and my Publisher does not act like the ones on Youtube, which neatly renumber.

Here is what I have and that is the page numbers are all screwed up.

Even though the update is all checked. I've clicked the synchronize and it still does not work.

I've gone into the section manager and made the pages right. I put them in the book and they become like this above. 

If you are using books, can the section manager not be used?

Also, how do you reset the section manager if it's not what you want. I mean how do I force the page numbering if it's grayed out because it's in a book? I would like to start the page numbers over so that Chapter 1 starts with page 1 rather than starting at page 7.

Thanks for the help!

[MikeTO]

You can't use the Section Manager to set the starting page number of the first section in a Chapter file. You must select the Chapter in the Books panel and choose Page Number Options from the panel menu. Once you've corrected the Chapters to continue numbering from the previous chapters, the page number sync should work.

Cheers

[Bryce]

thank you genius Mike!

I struggled with that and now think it's good.

[Bryce]

Is there a way to make the default page number options setting in the book menu to always "Continue from previous chapter"? Everyone I import always has to be changed to that setting.

[MikeTO]

10 hours ago, Bryce said:

Is there a way to make the default page number options setting in the book menu to always "Continue from previous chapter"? Everyone I import always has to be changed to that setting.

It should be for new chapters added to the document, but if you've been duplicating a chapter with it set to start at a specific page number, it will default to that setting.