Automatically numbering a long document in pages 4.3

I have an 86 long page document that each page is related to one another. How do I get up it's consecutive page numbering on the bottom of each page in this document?
I'm using pages 4.3.

You have clicked in the footer? Not that it needs to be in the footer.
You do have a Footer:
Inspector > Document > Document Margins > check Footer
Are you sure you are in Pages '09?
You are not trying to do this in a locked object?
Peter

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Leonardo Biondi wrote:
Hi there,
I am running Pages 3.0 (with all current updates) on an iMac with Os 10.5.7 and 2 Gb of RAM. I have a very long document (almost 200 pages) with pictures and tables that worked fine until yesterday.
I usually make a backup copy of the file every evening just to be sure, however...... it seems that it's not enough!!
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The same happens if I try to open the backup copy! I am stuck and I can't access the file!!!!!!!!!
Disk utility says the the hard disk is OK (and so are the privileges).
What can I do?? I can't even export the file in Word as it crashes before I can convert him. By the way, the same happens on another Mac: it really seems that the document is now corrupted (without doing anything special...).
The funny thing, is that Quicklook works just fine: if I hit the space bar from the Finder, I can see the content perfectly.
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Simple:
The Index.xml file is no longer readable by Pages but as you saved a preview in the document this Preview.pdf file is readable.
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