: InDesign 5.5 Section Numbering I am putting together a telephone directory, and I was trying to figure out a good way of getting section markers to work for me. My setup has 3 towns: Burford,

@Alves566

Okay based on your updated question here is how we do it where I work. Someone else might have a better solution:

You're bringing this out from some sort of database presumable and going to be adjusting it in Excel and then importing it as a CSV file to InDesign. We sort stuff like this out in the Excel file so when we do the import it already has the category header (category, state, country, whatever that directory calls for) in place. If you set it up so it imports from Excel with the Paragraph styles already in place its then a simple matter of creating the triangle shape and dropping it behind the letters.

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@Murray976

Based on the comment above, it's pretty easy....



Set the section prefix to the town, then choose the Upper Alpha for Style. And you should be set.

Note I checked "Include Prefix when numbering" as well.

UPDATE

For a section marker with the city/town, then pages A-B



here the section Marker is set to a city/town.

Then on a master page you would insert the section marker as well as the current page number:



The section marker will only appear on the first page (A) then will be followed by B, C, D, etc. without the town/city.

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