Numbering sections in CS2

Hi I'm an inexperienced user & I have documents of between 20 - 60 pages. I have a table of contents on the first page, and I have sections;
Tendering Documents
Examples of previous work
Contract
Payment Schedule
Risk Assessment
Method Statement
Then to the right I have the page numbers, I was hoping to have section markers or something like that to automatically number what page they are on as bigger jobs have say 15 tendering pages whereas smaller jobs have only 2 pages in this section.
Is what I'm after possible?
Thanks

Have you looked at using the Table of Contents feature in InDesign?  It sounds like that's what you are after?
Although this older blog-post isn't from CS2, it should help you understand how this works: http://carijansen.com/2009/03/22/tip-085/
Also have a look in the index of your CS2 Help and locate "Table of Contents" to read-up about it a bit more.
Cari
www.twitter.com/carijansen
p.s. I know the blog post is about interactive PDF, but it covers the Table of Contents feature

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