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Make document cover title show automatically on every page

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    • March 4, 2013 at 7:05 am #64323
      Jahrod
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      I'm looking for something similar to a running header (i think) but not exactly: i want to be able to type the document's name on the cover and for it to show in my header on every page automatically. At the moment i type the title on the cover and then go to my master spread and also add the title in the header. Of course this works and it may sound lazy that i want to reduce this second step, but the reason is to avoid errors. We work on the same template for many documents and it's very easy for somebody to change the cover title but forget to change it in the small header text too.

      Does this make sense and is there any way to it??

      Thank you.

    • March 4, 2013 at 7:08 am #64324
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Yes, a normal Paragraph Style running header text variable should work for that.

    • March 5, 2013 at 12:08 am #64328
      Jahrod
      Member

      That's what i initially thought would work too but unless i'm missing something it doesn't. As far as i can understand it's because there isn't any running header on my cover page and so the master spread cannot pick it up. Would that be correct?

      To try and be clearer, let's say for example i have a 20 page brochure. The cover (front and back) have no master applied. The inside 18 pages have a master spread applied, that master spread has a header which is defined with a running head paragraph variable which is defined to pick up my cover title's paragraph style. The probelm is it doesn't. Is it, as i mentioned before, because there is no master applied to my cover with a running header variable, and if so do you know of a workaround?

      Thank you very much.

    • March 8, 2013 at 7:06 am #64360
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      No, it has nothing to do with whether there is a master page applied to the first page, or if there is a running head variable there. The running head picks up the last use of the text with the particular paragraph style. Perhaps you did not choose the correct paragraph style when defining your running head text variable?

    • March 13, 2013 at 11:46 pm #64407
      Jahrod
      Member

      Thank you, David, this now works! I am not sure why it wouldn't before, but as you say, perhaps i didn't assign the correct paragraph style. Anyway, thanks again :)

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