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Adding page numbering

Adding page numbering

- [Instructor] 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. In this document, we want the page numbers on almost every document page, so where should we put them? That's right, the parent page. So I'm going to come over here to my doc and open the pages panel. Then I'll double click on my parent page A, which in this document is called A master. Now, I'd like my page numbers at the bottom of this page. I could put it inside the text frame I already have, but in this case, I'm going to grab the type tool and draw a new text frame down here just off to the side. Let's zoom in on this by pressing command two or control two on Windows. Now I can type my page number. So what should I type, the actual page number? No…

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