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027 Creating running heads using variables

027 Creating running heads using variables - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

027 Creating running heads using variables

David Blatner: I'm laying out a book here and I want to add running headers that show the reader what section they are in. Actually in this case, they're going to be running footers, but you get the idea. There are several ways to do this, but I want to show you my favorite method using text variables. In this case I want to use my subheads, these orange subheads, and I want to grab that text and put it down into my footer down here. That footer is on the master page, so I can open my master page by opening the Pages panel, double-clicking on the Master, I'll close the Pages panel, and let's go ahead and just zoom in here, so we can see this better. And I'm going to put it inside this text frame. I'll double-click to switch to the Type tool and put the cursor there, and now it's time to go insert that text variable. I'll select the Type menu, I'll select Text Variables, come over here to Insert Variable, and you can see that there is already a Running Header variable in here, but the…

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