I learned a little InDesign trick recently that has really decreased my level of frustration when working with documents with multiple sections. Maybe it is just me, but every time I want to print or create a PDF of a portion of a multi-section InDesign document I run into trouble. I have the hardest time entering the section names/page numbers that correspond to the pages I would like to print into the Range box in the Print Dialogue box.
One way to help figure this out is to click on each of the pages you want to print in InDesign and check the page number box in the bottom left side of the screen. This will show you exactly how to enter each page number (eg Sec2:4). Then you will just need to type these pages into the Range box in EXACTLY the same format.
However, my new favorite way to avoid all of this nonsense is to use the magic plus sign! Simply put a “+” in front of the page number and it will tell InDesign to use absolute page numbering. So “+1″ always refers to the first page in your document, regardless of what section it is in. I love that!
