Page Numbering / Sections

Can someone please give me a step by step on how to correct things when I receive this message (see attached).
I have tried a few things but it's not fixed and therefore I must not be understanding.
Thanks!

ID is telling you that you have pages with the same number assigned in more than one section, and that the numbering style is the same, so the program cannot distinguish which one you might mean when you tell it do do something that requires knowing a page location, such as moving pages or printig a page range.
You correct the problem by changing the numbering style for the section, by using small roman mumerals, for example, for front matter and arabic numerals for the body of a book.

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Change Start page numbering to Auto Page numbering in the Numbering & Section Options using script

1. I have many documents to add into a book. After adding the documents, all file page numbers should be continued from the previous file. Now I am doing manually for all files at all time. Numbering & Section Options => Start Page Numbering at: to Automatic Page Numbering.
2. And also I need to add the Chapter number with the page number (Ex: 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 … , 2/2, 2/3, 2/4 …., 3/2, 3/3, 3/4 ….). Here also I am doing manually like. Numbering & Section Options => Page Numbering => Section Prefix: 1 and Include Prefix When Numbering Pages. (The page number should start from 2).
Note: In Every chapter opening there will be a file name called S… (Ex: Ch 1: S3391.indd, Ch 2: S3392.indd, Ch 3: S3393.indd). So after every S(S3391, S3392 …) file the next file page number should starts from 1/2, 1/3. 2/2, 2/2 ….
Ex:
Chapter 1          Pages
S3391.indd
32457.indd       1/2 … 1/5
32617.indd       1/6 ….. 1/9
32217.indd       1/10 … 1/13
Chapter 2
S3392.indd
42457.indd       2/2 … 2/3
52617.indd       2/4 ….. 2/9
33217.indd       2/10 … 2/13
Could anyone give me an idea or script, please? At least for First one, could anyone suggest me ASAP.
P.S: I have some more questions regarding this, I will post that after some time...
Thanks in Advance,
Thiru

var openedDocs = app.documents;
var chapterPrefix = prompt ("Enter the chapter prefix", "1/", "Prefix");
for (var doc=0; doc<openedDocs.length; doc++){
    openedDocs[doc].sections[0].continueNumbering = true;
    openedDocs[doc].sections[0].sectionPrefix = chapterPrefix;
    openedDocs[doc].sections[0].includeSectionPrefix = true;
alert("Done");
Chapter 1, contains 10 files (Each file 6 pages)… (1/1, 1/2, … 1/60) – prefix 1
Open all 10 files of one chapter and run it....
and then for another 10 files....

I'm having a devil of a time changing page numbers even though I'm following the instructions for doing so. Any tips?

I imported an already paginated text from Word into Pages to format it for a book. I don't wan the first few pages numbered, so I've been trying to begin page one at the beginning of chapter one. I've followed the instructions for changing page numbers, i.e., click next to page you want to change; in dialogue box click "start new header /footer; a new section is created; click Setup, click Section; in page numbering section, select "Start at" and enter a new starting number." In trying to do this often I can't get the dialogue box, or when I do, I get a new section that commences with a blank page. Or, the dialogue box that should allow me to change numbers never appears. Help!

Is this for the Mac or iOS?
You only have iOS 7.0.4 as atag.
Peter

Exclude some pages from page numbering

Hey,
I create an RTF template to produce PDF output.
I want to exclude some pages from the page numbering.
Does someone know how this may be possible?
Thanks for your assistance
brgds,
David DC

I think I was "nearly" able to achieve what you want to achieve.
I used Word 2003 - just in case and 5.6.x (hope it doesn't matter).
You need to create two section breaks:
Page 1
--- Section Break ---
Page2 - No page numbering
--- Section Break
Page 3- (which will show page number 2).
For the first page you can pretty much hard code the page number.
For the second page you go to the header and
1) Select "unlink to previous" from the header/footer toolbar
2) Remove the page numbering from the second page.
For the third page (section 3) you go to the header and:
1) Select "unlink to previous" from the header/footer toolbar
2) Remove the previous header
3) Insert the page number, select it with the cursor
then select "Format Page Number" from the header/footer toolbar.
4) In this dialog box you select under page numbering "start at": 2
5) Insert the total number of pages, select the field with the cursor
then select "Format Page Number" from the header/footer toolbar.
6) In this dialog box you select under page numbering "start at": 2
FUNNY - in Word it still stays Page 2 of 3 in the header of the third page, but
when I run it with XML Publisher I get Page 2 of 2.
So I get after the run for the page header of a 3 page document:
Page 1 Header:
Page 1 - NO PAGE TOTAL - I get to this later
Page 2 Header:
NO PAGE HEADER
Page 3 Header:
Page 2 of 2
Now how do I get the correct page number onto the first page - I tried a trick and it worked...
1) Insert a bookmark (ie. name test) behind the last word of your document - on the last page. Menu: Insert bookmark
2) Go to the header of the header of the first page behind:
Page 1 of
3) Now select from the menu Insert: Referernce -> Cross reference.
4) Select refernce type "Bookmark" ,
Insert refence to "Page Number"
Select reference to test.
Worked for me... Let me know if that is what you wanted to achieve and if it works for you.
Klaus

I need to start the page numbers over for a new section in a document (i.e. first six pages are roman numerals, next 70 need to be in arabic numerals), but for some reason, the automatic page numbering has started over at number 3 instead of 1. Help!!

If anyone has any idea why it's doing this, or what I can do to fix it, please help!

No idea why it's doing this.
You should be able to fix it by using Insert > Page Number, rather than 'Automatic Page Numbering.'
Set Page Numbers in your second section to "Start at:" 1
Regards,
Barry

New Page numbers for Sections in Pages 5.2

Hi, I can't figure out to how to start numbering pages from 1 in a new section using Pages 5.2.
I've tried to add new sections via both the Inspector and Insert > Add Section Break, but when I attempt to insert page numbers in the header of a new section, it's still not starting at 1.

See what I mean? I've successfully created the new section, but it still wants number the first page of a section with 2.

Using iWork 09 Pages I need the first six pages of a document to not be counted as page numbers. I need the seventh page to be numbered as page one. I already know to have a section break between pages 6 and 7 and to use inspector "start at." Not working

In the book I'm formatting, the first page is the title page, the second page is the copyright page, the third through fifth pages are the table of contents, the sixth page is blank, then the text (which I want to number as page one) is the introduction. I have section breaks between the title page, the copyright page, the table of contents, and the introduction. Using the Inspector, Layout, Section, and selecting "Start at" 7 doesn't do anything!

Is is a bit tricky, but it works. On your 6th page (the blank one) go to Insert > Section Break. This will give you a 7th page. Then go to Inspector (blue circle with a white letter i in it) and go to Layout Inspector (2nd tab). Once in thee, go to Section. Check "Start at" and enter the number 1. Then ensure all other toons I there are unchecked.
Then go to Insert, and select Auto Page Numbers. You will find that your 7th page is numbered 1 as you want, but the first six pages will be numbered 1 to 6, which you don't want. But you can then delete the page numbering in that 1st section, leaving your 2nd section, beginning at page 7, numbered as page 1. You'll need to play around a bit as I did, and I would suggest using a test document to play with so you can undo any unwanted actions etc, but with tweaking around, it's doable. This took me ages to sort, so if it works for you, please give me the points :-)

Section/Page numbers problems

I have a document which I want the page numbering to start on the second page, ie. there is a title page which has no number, and then the second page has number one.
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.
Does a section break always do this (add a new blank unuseable page)?
Please, what can I do?
(required end of post rant: I switched from MsWord thinking pages would be so much more simple... but really, WHAT THE....? Just have it be a simple thing somewhere that allows the page (or section) to start at "0")

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.
My guess is that an object is embedded in your title page which fools the tool cuttting the document in pages because on my machine, it works flawlessly.
You may activate the "Show Invisibles" function which may help to find if there is an odd character embedded.
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 …)
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 15 juillet 2008 17:40:19)

Continue page numbering from Main Section to Trailer Section

Hello,
I am trying to create a report which has multiple report blocks in the Main section. The page orientation is portrait for Main section. Now, I want to add a report block which should have a landscape orientation. So, I created this in the Trailer section. All that works out well.
My next task is to add a Table of Contents as the first page of the output (pdf). This is clearly documented in the Building Reports 10g manual and works just fine for the Main section. i.e. the TOC comes out with correct page numbers. But, for the Trailer section, the page number retrieved by SRW.GET_PAGE_NUM shows a page number of 1 , since it's the first page in the Trailer.
What I want is that the Trailer's page number should continue where the Main section left off. In fact, If I put a field in the margin for the trailer and source it from "Page Number" in the property pallet, I can see that it has the correct page number, i.e. it's main sections page number + 1. But, SRW.GET_PAGE_NUM seems to retrieve 1.
Note that at the Report Module level, I have set the Format Order of Sections property to Main-Trailer-Header.
Any inputs are much appreciated.
Thanks,
Manish

That worked perfectly after I discovered I also needed to uncheck "use previous footnote". I also checked "First page is different" since it is a Section Title Page and did not need a page number. Now, all that is needed is the availability of different types/styles of numbering (Roman numeral for introductory pages as an example).
What is happening is that I am self publishing a genealogical book on my family tree that also carries quite a lot of other family information and each of the "Sections" was built in Pages since I did not know how to correctly do sectioning to use a single Page document. There are eight SECTIONS, not pages, with a total 278 duplex (2 sided) pages.
Thanks Yvan for helping clarify the sectioning.
Sparkgapper

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

@section without page numbering reset

Hi,
I'm having a problem with page numbering.
I have the following layout (simplified):
some header fields here
current page number
total pages
<?start:body?>
<?for-each@section>
some fields here
<?end for-each?>
<?end body?>
Very simple. Except that I don't want the page numbering to reset. Is there anyway use @section and NOT reset page numbers with each break?
Any ideas?
Thanks.

aaaahhhhhh !!!!!!!!!
Thanks a lot . I was trying for this solution very badly.. How did you find the solution ? Can you point me to the reference so that I can have it for future issues/reference
Once again thank u so much for updating the thread with the solution !!!

Can not get correct page numbering for sections

I have created a RTF template for a report that is Burst by USERID and then on the template I have the DeptID as the section for the report. When I run the report I get page numbering by DeptID - so if 1 department has 2 pages I see page 1 of 2, 2 of 2, then the page numbering starts over for the next department. I actually want the report to show a total number of pages for the entire report in the header. Any ideas on how I can accomplish this? Thanks!

Vetri changed the template to have the body start prior to rows that I wanted repeated on all pages and then copied the repeated rows on the second page. This allowed for my page break between departments to happen and the page numbering in the heading also included the total number of pages not the total pages for each department.

Is there any way to display document page numbers and section page numbers at the same time?

Hi, I have different sections within my document starting the page numbering at 1. Besides the section page numbers I would also like to display the actual document page numbers in the header (eg. you are on page 10 of the document and page 4 of the section). Is there any way to do that? Thanks

You can maybe use the Find/Change
Command+i
See if that can work for you.
But like Steve said it is good practice to use Paragraph Style whenever you have lots of Type, I just get lazy sometimes.. lol
Thanks

Coutinue the page numbers even after section brake

Hi,
In my report i am using section brake between 2 tables to start second table rows from next page.
i need to continue the page numbers from table 1 to till the end of second table.

Friend where I can find in the BI PUBLISHER the option to edit this code where I put it?

How do I put page numbers in TOC to left of sections?

This is how the actual Pages manual does its toc, yet within the manual, the page numbers always appear to the right of the text. I thought this format might solve another toc layout problem I have. I'm cleaning up a book of poems written by a friend. Every poem has a number (and is on a new page) but only a few of the poems have a title. This means that if I tab between number and title, where this exists, the entry goes off the line, see number X (not my choice to use Roman numerals!):
So, I thought if the page numbers were to the left, I could format the style so where there was a title (like Au suivant) this could be properly aligned.

fruhulda was amazingly helpful, worked beyond the call of duty on my document, and provided me with the essential idea , that I needed two styles for the poem heading line, one when there was just a number and the other when there was a number and title.
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And for the record, dont do what I have just done: workin Pages (as I dont have word), and then export and send to the friend using Word. I have discovered the hard way that my Page styles did not export to Word!

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