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054 Creating running heads using section markers

054 Creating running heads using section markers - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

054 Creating running heads using section markers

Long documents like books need running heads. Though those might be footers at the bottom of the page or out in the outside margins, but wherever you put them, you probably want to provide a way for your reader to see where in the document they are. For example, what chapter or section they are reading. There are a couple of ways to do this. I am going to show you one of the lesser known options called Section Markers. In this document, I have chapters and sections and my Section 1 is called Beginnings, and I'd like to put that section name in the header. I'll scroll down here to look at my second spread here. Over here above the right-hand page, I'd like to put the section name, on the left side I have the name of the document, the name of the book itself, but I am going to put the section name over here. To do that, I need to go to the Master page, that running head is on the Master page. So I'll open my Pages panel and I'll double-click on the Master page. Now I'll select that text…

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