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Trying to delete a page from a spread and renumber the rest of the document.

Aug 27, 2012 8:04 AM

I need help deleting a page from a spread. After I delete the page from the spread the page is gone but I need the following page to take the place of the deleted page and have all the other pages renumber accordingly. I am using Indesign CS6.

 

For example, I am editing a book and I need to delete page 7. After deleting page 7, I need page 8 to turn into page 7 and all other pages to renumber accordingly. I believe this will be very simple to do; however, I do not know how to do it.

 

Thank you for helping in advance. God bless you!

 
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    Aug 27, 2012 8:18 AM   in reply to Romans10:9

    Did you use automatic page numbers?

     

     

     

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    Aug 27, 2012 8:34 AM   in reply to Romans10:9

    You would have had to have added the page numbers on a master page using the current page marker.

     

     

     

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    Bob

     
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    Aug 27, 2012 8:35 AM   in reply to Romans10:9

    A screen shot showing the pages panel would be very helpful. You can embed an image in your posts by using the camera con on the web page, like this:

    CameraIcon.png

     
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    Aug 27, 2012 10:37 AM   in reply to Romans10:9

    If you delete page viii, pages ix, x, xi and xii should mve one position to the left and renumber, but you have a new section starting at page 1 after the current page xii, and that is not going to change. By default ID follows convention and keeps odd-numbered pages on the right, and to overcome that you need to disallow page shuffling for at least one spread and manually drag a page to the other side of the spine, which would be a big mistake, in my opinion. Readers are used to pages being numbered according to tradition.

     

    That doesn't seem to be the only blank page in the front matter section. Perhaps you should consider removing two blanks there and adding one at the end of the doc to maintain the page count.

     
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