Insert current chapter name into header area

[marzbozo]

I want to insert the name of the current chapter into the header area of the page. There is a style configured that I want to use as reference. I want the header (or footer) to change whenever this tag text changes.

We can do it in Word, we should be able to do it in this program(?)

 

[tangerinewoman]

I think you should be using paragraph and character styles – window > types and tables > para and chara styles.

InDesign works very differently from word so don't expect to be able to do the same things in the same ways. Having said that, InDesign is the business when it somes to page layout, and Word cannot really be compared.

 

[marzbozo]

Sorry. I didn't mean to imply a comparison. I am simply trying to describe what I want to do. Using paragraph styles is surely part of the solution. However, having the program (InDesign) write a variable string to the page based on a style reference on the master page seems to not be an option. It would be as if we could use the auto page number function to insert the string associated with the text under a certain paragraph style and run that on the page until it changes to a new string, and then run that. I'm still looking for the answer.

 

[jmgalvin]

Indesign is a design/layout app and not really an authoring app. It's designed to take finished work and lay out that work for final print production. Adobe Framemaker is much more attuned to authoring.

There are many things that a strong word processor like Word can do that ID can't. Of course the reverse is also true.

I would suggest you confine your authoring to Word and then, for layout and professional printing, place it in ID, or you could try Framemaker.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[marzbozo]

Yes, well, adding information to the header/footer is hardly an "authoring" task. So I take it the answer is no.

Thanks

 

[DrDrive]

Try this:

http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/indesign/articles/indcs2at_masterheaders.html