Book page numbering

Even if the InDesign preferences is set to "absolute numbering", I can't find a way to get my book to be numbered in the order and many documents in the book have the marker in the section on the first page in the pages Panel and I can't access the box to uncheck the section marker.  And even if I change "auto-numbering of pages" to "page of beginning of 'x' number, the numbers do not change. that is, each separate document in my book panel begins page 1.    What could I do it wrong?

Jim-Montreal wrote:

Even if the InDesign preferences is set to "absolute numbering."

With an absolute numbering instead of the numbering section I expect each document to start at 1.

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