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How to Automate Chapter Headers in InDesign

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In this InDesign “Three Minutes Max” video, Laurie Ruhlin shows how to automate numbered chapter headers. She then takes it a step further and explains how to feed chapter names into a running header (or footer).

Laurie is an Adobe Certified Instructor in InDesign and Illustrator and an active user of many of the Creative Cloud programs in her graphic design business. She provides classroom and custom training both live and online as a consultant.

In addition to her teaching and speaking, she is a graphic designer, developing brochures, catalogs, newsletters, logos and interactive documents for a wide variety of clients. She is the author of a course for Ajar Productions – Creating your First Interactive Document with InDesign and in5. She is a writer for InDesign Magazine and has several videos on the CreativePro YouTube channel. From her diverse graphic design and consulting work, Laurie brings a wide variety of real-world knowledge into the classroom.

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  • Brad Grigor says:

    Thanks so much for the handy tip on using the Level for numbering chapters. I will be using this on a current project for both Parts and Chapters.

    However, is there a way to run a number series without it being tied to the Bullets & Numbering of a paragraph style? E.g. the flexibility doesn’t exist to apply different styles to the lead-in word “Chapter” and the chapter number itself. This would be possible if there was a way to drop the level number into an arbitrary location in the paragraph. I’ve looked for ways to do this with Text Variables, but it just doesn’t seem possible.

  • Elisabeth Buntz says:

    Thank you! Right to the point!

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