
Just like with Pages you'll need to manually copy and paste your content and you should use paragraph styles in InDesign to help keep your text styling consistent throughout the ebook. If I double-click on page 14, the page number updates there too and the great things about these automatic page numbers is that if you later add pages or remove pages, they'll all automatically update so you never have to worry about it again, which is awesome.How to access indesign templates Simply Browse, Search, Save & Download our Easy to use Templates. I'm going to come up here and double-click on page Eight and that takes me back to this document page and you can see the page number updated. For now, let's see if these page numbers are working. Now, obviously I could duplicate this page number onto the right hand page but I'll leave that for you to do on your own time. I cover paragraph styles and how to make them in a later chapter but in this case, this looks pretty good. Let's apply some formatting to this by going up to the Control Panel and choosing from the Paragraph Styles pop-up menu.


Now on this page, it just says A but that's because we're on master page A don't worry it'll change on the document pages automatically. When I select that InDesign inserts the current page number into the text frame.

So that special character can be found inside the Type menu way down here inside the Insert Special Character sub menu then look inside the Marker sub menu there it is Current Page Number. Instead, you want a stand in, a marker, a symbol, something that's going to change on every page. Now I need to type my page number inside this frame so what should I type, the actual page number? No, you don't want to type real numbers here. Let zoom in on this by pressing Command four or Control four on Windows. I could put it inside this text frame but in this case, I'm going to grab the Type Tool and I'm going to drag out a new frame over here. That jumps to this master page and I'd like my page numbers at the bottom of the page down here. So I'm going to come over here, open my pages panel and double-click on A Master. In this document, we want pages down by the footers on almost every page so where should we put them? That's right, the master page.
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When you're working on a book or a magazine or anything that has more than a few pages you owe it to your readers to add page numbers but it's a hassle to add page numbers to each and every page, right? Well, fortunately InDesign makes page numbers easy.
