Absolute and Section Page Numbering (ID CS3)

I'm laying out a book (over 800 pages) that's split into sections. The client wants each section with its own set of page numbers as well as an absolute page number running throughout the whole thing. How do I do this without doing it manually? I've tried everything I can think of but I either end up replacing the section numbers or having two sets of section numbers on the page. Thanks for any help on the matter.

For the section numbering, use Auto Page Numbering, and apply sections accordingly. For the absolute numbering, create a master text frame that you could flow a list of numbers. For an easy way to create the list, see this thread:
Robert Levine, "Excel numbering and data merge" #1, 28 Aug 2008 9:38 am

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klaply wrote:
Reading through other posts about this, I have found that I have to add a section break in order to make this work, between the title page (1) and the real first page (2). But the problem is whenever I add a section break, it creates an entire blank page for the section break, so I end up with title page, blank page, real first page. Even if I have enough space, etc... every time I create a new section I get a blank page which I cannot type on or use, without deleting the section break and putting me back to square one.
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Does a section break always do this (add a new blank unuseable page)?
NO, here it doesn't
Just have it be a simple thing somewhere that allows the page (or section) to start at "0")
It would not solve the problem because it would display the number 0 on the first page which is not what you want.
It would not solve the problem for those wanting a numbering starting on page 3 (or on page 4 …)
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