Indesign cc page number sequence

I am using indesign cc! I want to change the page number sequence. Now we create the page number is auto setting left to right! But how can I change the view sequence right to left? Before I use cs5 it have the button on doc setting, now no this button, how can I do??

I think this is ME feature.
You can download indesign ME version, open the Creative Cloud app on your desktop. Then go to Preferences (On the top right corner) and under the "App Language" dropdown, select the version you want. Hebrew or Arabic that support english.

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Mr. Spier
Right after I posted my question, I saw a post from last year where somebody had similar problems. (I cringed because I spent almost 3 days researching this problem and never ran across that post; thanks for not scolding me for posting a semi re-run.) I decided to try one of the easier solutions: I opened the problem document from the book panel, went to the master page and deleted the text box containing the page number, copied the page number box from a document that worked correctly, and pasted it into the problem document. Saved that doc, closed, saved book, exported to pdf, and it worked!! The page number problem was fixed. I went back and did the same thing for the other problem documents and they all number correctly now.
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