Reply To: Variable folio messages

David,

I enjoyed the podcast but I can't get the suggestions to work. I've also done most of the lynda.com courses concerning CS4 InDesign (all spectacular!) but also to no avail in this one thing.

What complicates this is that the folios don't change by group of pages (as a section would do) but spread to spread. For example, pages 4&5 might say “See our website”, pages 6&7 “100 new products”, pages 8&9 “InDesign is great”, etc. and then cycle again at pages 24&25, 26&27, etc.

I might be missing a simple check box or something, but I can't seem to figure out how to get text variables or section markers to work without having an item to signal the text variable or without designating a new section every spread. Plus, when pages 6&7 inevitably get moved, let's say, to the 4&5 position, it would be great if the message on that spread would then update to “See our website” and then every succeeding page update up one message in the list.

I'm asking the impossible, aren't I?