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    • December 23, 2010 at 10:42 pm #58197
      Kip
      Member

      When I try to do this it just comes up blank. I am trying to use a text variable to put the chapter name on each right sided page. It works on regular pages but not master pages. I shouldn't have to paste the variable one page at a time should I?!

    • December 24, 2010 at 6:07 am #58201
      Theunis De Jong
      Member

      Can you describe in more detail what you are doing? I never have to put variables on a live page, mine are always on master pages. Works a treat, too.

      Perhaps they are set up to pick up a certain paragraph style, and you accidentally applied that style to blank lines, as well as the 'correct' paragraphs — that'll throw off InDesign every time.

    • December 25, 2010 at 11:48 pm #58207
      Kip
      Member

      I got it to work now. It appeared to be a bug from InDesign. I had to restart my computer because it was running slow then when I tried adding the text variable this time it mostly worked. The only thing that isn't currently working is the text variables don't work with one chapter that has two lines of text in it's heading. It is only picking up the second line of text and leaving out the first.

    • December 26, 2010 at 1:25 pm #58210
      Theunis De Jong
      Member

      A-ha — at least that last thing makes sense. Text variables pick up stuff by the paragraph, and can use either the first occurrence on a certain page, or the last occurrence. And yes: it'll only pick up one paragraph.

    • December 26, 2010 at 5:10 pm #58211
      Kip
      Member

      Well the text variable isn't picking up the whole paragraph it is only picking up the second line of the paragraph. Is there a way that I can pick up both lines in the text variable? If it can pick up a paragraph it should be able to pick up both lines of text I would think.

    • December 27, 2010 at 5:35 am #58213
      Theunis De Jong
      Member

      A paragraph is anything between two returns, so check if you don't have a hard return at the end of the first line.

    • December 29, 2010 at 4:38 pm #58244
      Kip
      Member

      Ok, that would be the reason, I had a return in the heading. The reason I did this is because if I didn't do it there would have been a hyphen between one of the words with only two letters on the second which looked really funny.

      The odd thing still is that the text variable is set as being the first on the page and yet the variable is showing the last line of the header. I suppose if I wasn't having this problem I could make a text variable for both the first and last line so that both lines would show up in the header. Do you have any ideas as to why my text variable is showing me the last line when I set it for the first line?

    • January 5, 2011 at 5:25 am #58293
      Rhiannon Miller
      Member

      You'd be better off changing your hyphenation settings (either increasing the number of letters after the hyphen or turning off hyphenation altogether) rather than putting hard returns in your header. You could make the change in the paragraph style, so that all headers are affected, or just locally in that instance if you need the hyphenation to be present in other headers.

      As for the 'first on page' thing, I can't help, except to note that I've had the same problem.

    • January 6, 2011 at 4:40 pm #58311
      Kip
      Member

      Turning off hyphenation worked perfectly! Thanks

    • September 3, 2017 at 3:08 pm #97706
      Rich Harvey
      Participant

      My text variables are listing the chapter # and Title …

      “60. Stray Thoughts on a Picket Line”

      I would really like it to NOT display the chapter number in the heading. Everything is typed on one line.Any thoughts? I’m using Indesign CS3.

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