Comments on: Fixing InDesign’s Poor Auto Numbering Feature

By: abcdefg

abcdefg — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:38:28 +0000

at level 1 enter level 1 and put this into numbering: ^#.^t

al level 2 enter level 2 and put this into numbering:

^1.^#.^t

at level 3 enter level 3 and put this into numbering:
^1.^2.^#.^t

and so on…

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:50:51 +0000

Luis, the footnote or endnote numbering is handled by Type > Document Footnote Options.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:49:50 +0000

Not sure what the square would be; perhaps a missing character in that font. Here's another post about numbering tickets.

By: DebCS

DebCS — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:37:28 +0000

I am using the numbered list to set up consecutive numbering on gift certificates. I don’t want a separator but when I choose none a square shows up where the separator would be. I have it all set up but can’t get rid of the square. Any ideas? Or, do you know of a better way to set up consecutive numbering when I have 4 certificates to a page.

By: Luis

Luis — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:34:03 +0000

Hi: Do you know how I can import the format of an articule in word, that have a lot of numbered notes in the text, and them appeard at the end of the articule. When I see it on Word, I have numbers but when I import to InDesign the numbers of the notes change by letters. thank you

By: Rex

Rex — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:33:04 +0000

I use Spreads in Indesign CS 2.
The bad thing is that Indesign counts the pages on a Spread twice.

But I want to count one spread as a single Page.
How can I do that?

It’s a very important feateure which is missing.

MfG
Rex

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:31:00 +0000

All the above are a real pain, double figure numbers are not possible to right align, and I have to keep to a publisher’s new Indesign rules that state I must always use numbers and bullets. What about the lack of ability to change the baseline shift on bullets!!! I do love Indesign though…

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 19:12:16 +0000

Absolutely, Rita! We mentioned that trouble briefly in the podcast. There really should be a way to do that. Maybe in CS3?

By: Rita

Rita — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 18:37:04 +0000

Does anyone else not like that the numbers are not right aligned? When the numbering gets into double numbers, the numbers don’t align with the periods.

By: Ken Hollern

Ken Hollern — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 02:56:56 +0000

A solution to the original problem presented in the podcast: You can add aditional paragraphs to any numbered or bulleted list by adding a soft return (shift-return). This will create a new paragraph, but it will not be numbered. You can then add space between paragraphs by increasing the leading for the first line of copy. after the soft return. Be sure to UNCHECK the “apply leading to entire paragraphs” found under Preferences: Type.