Reply To: HELP with running header text variable please!

That is very disappointing. You would think InDesign would be able to handle something as simple as colour in a variable, especially since it is a property specified in both a paragraph & character style!

Well, what if you look at it from the other way around. The one thing a variable does pick up is text .. and that's about the only thing you cannot specify in styles. So it seems Adobe didn't have your workflow on their minds when they implemented variables.

Mind you, I could think of a few tricks if something like this makes it into CS5.5. :-)