Sheet numbering

It Depends how you want to do it, whether you reference sheet borders or place them in every sheet, and how complex your numbering scheme is.

Since we are most often concerned with Sheet numbering at time of printing, we use Print Organizer, combined with a few basic text substitutions from our pen table. This will automatically generate sheet number for our border that correspond to sheet number and number of sheets in the PSET. It's not very robust, it doesn't accommodate complex numbering schemes, and it doesn't handle cross-references well (See Sheet ##), but it covers about 95% of what we need.

Using Sheet Models, assigning Sheet numbers and using Text Fields in your title block will lend itself better to complex numbering schemes and cross referencing, but the last time I looked at it (which has been a while!) there was no good way to update numbers for added sheets, and nothing to "hold" a count of total sheets. I thought that Project Explorer offered a way to Renumber sheets, but I haven't had a chance to more than poke around a little for several years.

Tags aren't bad, but they have to be placed and maintained in each and every sheet drawing. The Help file actually has decent explanations about tags, their purpose and use under the section Composing Drawings -> Tagged Elements. They are not text, and they cannot be edited with the text editor unless they are "dropped" to plain text.
If you want to go the route of an editable element placed in each file, You may be just as well off with a cell for your sheet numbers made up of plain text (instead of tags). You can edit text in a cell without dropping it, using just the plain text editor, and cells can be set up to use Annotation Scale (or not).

You can always look into a combination of approaches. Something like using Sheet properties (sheet number) with Fields for indivdual sheet numbers, static, editable text for total number of sheets, or some combination of static text, tags and text substitutions.

Robert,

Mary covers most of the ways you can number sheets, I'll throw in one additional method.
It's low tech, but works for us - we are only adding sheet #'s.
We set up a dgn file with a list of number from 1-100, the numbers are evenly spaced, then each of these sheet numbers is referenced into the sheet file and clipped. That;s it for set up. If the sheet #'s change we update the dgn file with the numbers, this also lets us add and remove numbers\sheet pretty easily.

We have also numbered sheets post-plotting in PDF files, this works well too.

Tom F.

I've always used the low tech approach. A border is always a reference, every element common to all sheets should be in there. You do need to manually edit the total as it changes.

I know this is a few months old, but you can easily re-number sheets with Project Explorer if you use the field method. You just select the sheets or folder in the list that you want to renumber then right click to get menu. There is a renumber option.

After you select that it asks what number you want to start with and what increment. The only catch is that while it updates the data in the model properties it doesn't automatically update the field. I'm still searching for the best way to do that. So far a batch process to just open each file works as long as "Update Fields Automatically" is turned on, or you could add the key-in to update the fields in the batch process to be sure.