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Changing the month every month.

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    • August 20, 2015 at 5:01 pm #77483
      Remco Enthoven
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      Every month I create a newsletter and every month I have to change the month in the footers and masthead.

      Is there a way to change the month and or issue in one place and make it correct for the whole publication?

      Remco

    • August 24, 2015 at 10:58 am #77522
      Kenneth Darby
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      I assume that you have a template document that you contains some essentials necessary to every month’s issue.

      This sounds perfect use for text variables. Set up the variables on your master pages. Under Type>Text Variables>Define. On the panel that pops up select “New.” Define your variable’s Name (e.g., “Date Masthead”, “Date footers”, etc.). Define the variable’s Type as Custom Text.
      Define the Custom Text (e.g., “August”, “September”, …)

      On the master pages that have a footer insert the appropriate Text Variable. I would use different variables because you may need it in all caps on the Masthead and Cap and Lower case on the footer, otherwise you may get away with just creating one Text Variable and using it in all places.

    • March 13, 2016 at 8:21 pm #82886
      Remco Enthoven
      Member

      I’ve tried to get this to work but everything I define in the Custom Text field ends up in my text.
      E.g. “January”, “February”, “March”, “April”, “May”, “June”, “July”, “August”, “September”, “October”, “November”, “December”
      How can I select a certain month?

    • March 16, 2016 at 6:09 am #82951
      Masood Ahmad
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      Why do you want to select a month. I think you have defined all the twelve months as a single string in your custom text. If that so, then delete it and just put one month’s name in the custom text field. For example: March. Similarly, change the March to April in the next month.

      or you can use the variable to insert the Month automatically every month:

      1) Go to Text Variables
      2) Click New….
      3) Name the Variable as per your choice for example “Issue Month”
      4) Select ‘Modification Date’ from the Drop down Type menu
      5) Edit the ‘Date Format:’ to read “MMMM”
      6) Click Ok and exit the Text Variables panel.
      7) Use the “Issue Month” variable in your footers etc.

      Hope that works for you :)

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