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Okay, I'm kind of a bonehead making up 001 to 1000 manually or whatever for a few years for the cheap and dirty numbering system but just lately I've found another way. Bear with me, this is very "low-tech" but it works for the simple tickets we usually get around these parts.
You create your master page in Quark or InDesign.....whatever...then you copy all your ticket elements on master page A to start. (I know, if you have colored tickets and are making a lot there will be a huge file created but like I said, this is "low-tech".) Anyway, on master page A you enter 00x (x is the symbol for auto numbering depending on what app you're using)....that works up till 009 ok. You you copy all your page elements onto a new master...master B and enter 0X. You insert 89 new pages and that will take you up to 99. Caring on with our saga, you do the same for master pageC and do a X for the auto numbering. That will take you up till whatever after you insert the pages based on C.
I'm not sure If i've explained it right but it works really well even if you have 2 numbers on a ticket or 1. If we get a ticket that is going to create a huge MB file that our docutech can't handle (it happened a couple of times, once a 1000 ticket file that was 4/4 came in at 2 GB) then we just print them and number them manually. But for most of the simple tickets we create, this method works fine.
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