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Facing Pages with left page number as ‘1′

October 14, 2004 | Posted by Cari Jansen

Digitip 028 – Adobe InDesign CS

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You might have some use for the following tip, that I’m just adding, as it is a question I receive often. “Can my left hand page be automatically numbered to page 1 when I am using facing pages?” My answer is: yes, it can. Here are the steps to follow.

Numbering and Section options

Start by creating a multiple page facing pages document (tick ‘facing pages’) in the new document dialog box.

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Double click the tiny little black triangle at the top of page one (this is a section marker). The following dialog box appears.

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Now enable the Start Page Numbering option and start on page number 2. Click OK to apply.

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You should now see the pages palette displayed as above. So how can we now renumber this page 2, back to page one without the pages shifting back in order?

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Start by shift clicking the first and last page in your pages palette (to select all pages). Now, open the pages palette fly-out menu and enable ‘Keep Spread Together”. This will put square brackets around all double page spreads.

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Now select the section marker again and in the Numbering & Section Options set the Start Page Numbering back to 1.

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Click OK to apply, and the task is accomplished :-)

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Happy master-paging.

Topics: InDesign | 2 Comments »

2 Responses to “Facing Pages with left page number as ‘1′”

  1. Henna Pathross says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 9:45 am

    This is great but how does one actually create two different master pages – one for the left and another for the right whereby the margins are actually different? Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks a million!

    Cheers,
    Henna

  2. Aaron says:
    September 26th, 2011 at 12:53 pm

    Thanks for this, Cari.

    FYI, all: In CS4, the equivalent to ‘Keep Spread Together’ is disabling ‘Allow Selected Spreads to Shuffle’.

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