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I've had great help here before, and I'm hoping someone can help me with this one.

All my booklets have Page # of # at the bottom. I use the auto page numbering feature in InDesign CS2 (Windows) to do the page number, and then I manually type in the end page number (on the master page) when I'm done.

This works great, except when I revise a book and add or delete pages, or if I mistakenly type in the wrong number. Twice I've printed hundreds of books with the end page number messed up.

Any ideas on how to write a script to update this? Perhaps using a character style "EndPage" or something. One problem with this is that all of my books start numbering with page 1 on what is actually the fourth page, and all of them have 2 blank pages at the end of the book (needed for the macro that makes them print in booklet form.) So I don't want it to count the first 3 or the last 2 pages in the End Page number.

Any ideas greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Brenda Johnson