Number pages, chapters, and paragraphs in a book
You can determine how pages, chapters, and paragraphs are numbered in a book. In a book file, the numbering styles and starting numbers for pages and chapters are determined by each document’s settings in the Numbering & Section Options dialog box. For numbered paragraphs (such as lists of figures), this is determined by the numbered list style definition contained by the paragraph style.
The page range appears beside each document name in the Book panel. By default, InDesign updates page and section numbering in the Book panel when you add or remove pages in booked documents, or when you make changes to the book file, such as reordering, adding, or removing documents. You can turn off the setting to automatically update page and section numbers and update numbering in a book manually.
If
a document is missing or cannot be opened, the page range is shown
as “?” from the place where the missing document should be to the
end of the book, indicating that the true page range is unknown.
Remove or replace the missing document before you update numbering.
If the In Use icon 
appears, someone
using a different computer has opened the document; the person must close
the document before you can update numbering.
For a video on numbering pages in a book, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0217.
Change page and chapter numbering options for each document
- Select the document in the Book panel.
- Choose Document Numbering Options in the Book panel menu, or double-click the document’s page numbers in the Book panel.
- Specify the page, section, and chapter numbering options. (See Document numbering options.)
- Click OK.
Start numbering on an odd or even page
You can start document numbering on odd- or even-numbered pages in booked documents.
- Choose Book Page Numbering Options in the Book panel menu.
- Choose Continue On Next Odd Page or Continue On Next Even Page.
- Select Insert Blank Page to add a blank page to the end of any document in which the subsequent document must begin on an odd- or even-numbered page, and then click OK.
Turn off automatic page numbering in a book
Use sequential paragraph numbering in books
To use sequential paragraph numbering for lists of figures, tables, or other items, you first define a numbered list that is used in a paragraph style. The numbered list you define determines whether paragraph numbering maintains sequential numbering across documents in a book.
- Open the document that is used as the style source for the book.
- Choose Type > Bulleted And Numbered Lists > Define Lists.
- Click New to define a list or select an existing list and choose Edit.
- Select both Continue Numbers Across Stories and Continue Numbers From Previous Document In Book.
- Click OK.
- Define a paragraph style that uses the number list, and apply it to the text in each document that contains the list. (See Create a paragraph style for running lists.)
To make sure the same numbered list setting
is used across all documents in the book, select the Paragraph Styles
and Numbered Lists options in the Synchronize Options dialog box,
and then synchronize the book.
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