

To me, it makes more sense to rename the cover page 1, because it’s not included in any page numbering sequence. To fix this all you need to do is rename one of the “page 1”s. InDesign is confused! Poor lil’ InDesign. I got this message when I tried to apply a new master page to the cover page (1):īasically it’s telling me it can’t apply the master page I want, because there are 2 x “pages 1”s in my document. Note that you may run into issues if your document has duplicate page numbers from doing the above steps. This will unlock the items from the master page, so you can then select and delete the bits you don’t need, such as the page numbers. Or, you can go to the Pages palette menu, and select Override all Master page items.Choose “Apply master to pages…” and then choose the master page you want to use instead of A-Master. To do this, select the page you want to apply the different master page to, and click the Pages palette menu button. Apply a different master page which doesn’t contain any page numbering, such as the master called “None”.If you want to remove page numbers from any of the pages in your document you have two choices: Your page numbers should have automatically renumbered.ħ. It’s simply telling you that some of your pages will have identical page numbers. you can make an “even” left-side page into page 1. This will work with either a left- or right-side page (i.e. Select Start page numbering at and set the number in the box to be “1”. Click on the Pages palette menu button again. Uncheck the option Allow document pages to shuffle.ģ. The Pages palette has a menu you can access from the button on the top right of the panel. In this example, I want to choose page 2, and have the actual page number say “1” on the page. In your pages panel, double-click on the page icon where you want to start your numbering. Note: suggest you do this process only once you are happy with the final layout of your document, as it does require you to turn off shuffling of pages.ġ. What I want is for the page numbering to start on page 2, but instead of saying “2”, I want it to say “1”.

You can see that I have a cover page with no page number on it, but the actual numbering starts with number “2” on page 2. BEFOREĪbove is my document before I made this tutorial.

#Adobe indesign cc 2015 master page numbers not showing how to#
This tutorial will show you how to adjust your page numbers so you can have them starting where you want. Since the page numbers don’t appear on these pages, you probably don’t want them counted in the page numbering sequence either. If you have a cover at the start of your document, you may have one or more pages where you do not want the pages numbers to appear. When you use the A-Master and add auto-page numbering, InDesign counts each page from the very start of the document.
