![]() ![]() More after the jump! Continue reading below↓įree and Premium members see fewer ads! Sign up and log-in today. Here’s what we want, in its most basic state: It’s ideal for auto-numbering captions, for example (“Figure 17: Blah blah blah ” then three pages later, under another chart, “Figure 18: Blah blah.”). The feature I’m talking about is the ability to continue an auto-numbered list across unthreaded frames - frame to frame, page to page, even document to document, if you collect them all in a Book. (And looking at it again and again, because it’s not the clearest explanation.) In fact, I defy any InDesign CS3 user, new to the feature but not to InDesign, to get one of my favorite new features to work without looking at the Help file. I’m sure it’s all quite comprehensible by other software engineers. It bristles with new fields and dropdown menus and hieroglyphics that appear to mean something. And boy, did they! You can see the results if you open up CS3’s Bullets and Numbering dialog box. In CS3, responding to the cries of lament from many long document producers, Adobe sicced a team of software engineers on Numbered Lists to beef it up. If you have CS2, that’s about 90% of what you can do with the feature. ![]() Select a range of paragraphs and click the Numbered Lists icon in the Control panel, and the paragraphs are numbered sequentially. Most people, I think, can figure out the basics of InDesign’s Numbered Lists feature it works the same as Microsoft Word’s. ![]()
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