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Adding page numbers
To add page numbers into your document - use the INSERT menu to select PAGE NUMBER
and choose a number format and a page position from the INSERT PAGE NUMBER dialog.
By default the first page of your document will be 1, but if you have pages which you
don't want numbered at the start of the document, like contents or acknowledgments
pages, then you can get round this by giving the first page a - (minus) value. So if you
have three pages of content that you don't want numbered, enter -2 into the FIRST PAGE
IS: field, and then the pages you want to be numbered will start at 1. The sequence will
be...

-2, -1, 0, 1 etc.

Then delete the minus and zero page numbers from your document. If using numeral
values the - (minus) number will be replaced by a #.

Insert page number dialog

If you want to be more precise use the TEXT TOOL to click in your document page at the
place you want the page number to appear. Right click and select INSERT. Then select
one of the available number formats from the dialog box. As you add pages to your
document the page numbers will update incrementally.

You will need to make the page number a Repeating Object (on page 109), for a page
number to appear on every page of your document. If you move or change the style of
the number on one page then those changes will be applied to all pages automatically.
After inserting the page number on one page, select it using the SELECTOR TOOL and
then select "ARRANGE" > "REPEAT ON ALL PAGES", to place it in the same position on all
pages. You can still delete the number from some pages if you don’t want the number to
appear on every page.