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    • #14328501
      Joe Bruce
      Member

      Hello all,
      I have a scenario that I cannot find any information on solving. In my document, I have a Header paragraph style that is applied to the first line of a text box. The body copy (with its own style) runs onto a new page via a threaded text frame. I would like the first line to repeat at the top of this threaded text frame, with the Header style applied, and ideally with ” (continued)” after the text.
      Example: The document has references listed (these are not footnotes, just references because it’s a science publication). So “References” is the first line of the text frame, using the Header style. Following is the body copy, which threads over onto a new page (new text frame). I would like “References (continued)” to automatically show up at the top of this second text frame, regardless of what text begins the threaded frame (i.e. if I adjust the flow, “References (continued)” should always be at the top of that frame).
      I could just enter the repeated title manually, but then if the text reflows I will have to manually adjust. And, this is Indesign! There should be a way to do this. I have been playing with text variables, thinking that has to be the ticket, but I cannot figure it out. I’m also thinking GREP may come into play somehow, although my knowledge there is pretty basic. Thanks for any help or direction you can provide.
      Regards,
      Joe Bruce

    • #127187

      Hi Joe,
      if the header is always above the text you could work with a separate textframe above the threaded text frame. Place the header textframe onto a masterpage and you can change the content using the section-variable.
      Hopes this works for you,
      Regards,
      Marc

    • #14331416
      Joe Bruce
      Member

      Thanks for the reply, Marc.
      Instances of this are situational, so I’m not sold on a master page object as the answer. (Although I could just apply that master to the pages where I need this, so it may work.) Many of my searches on this topic yielded results about table headers, which was frustrating. Others were for running headers on master pages, so I understand how that works.
      I had another document a few weeks ago I wanted to do this on. It was an FAQ, and if the questions & answers were lengthy enough for the topic to run to another page, I wanted to repeat the topic header on the new page. Thinking on it now, a master page with text variable was probably the way to go there. I still feel like there should be another way to do this; please keep the advice coming!

    • #127195

      Hi Joe, I think the masterpages with a running header is the way to go here. With different masterpages created you still have to manually adjust the document but since you can apply a masterpage to a selection of pages I think it remains workable. Keep away from the tableheader solution, that’s not the way to go. The ideal solution is probably a script but since this is a very specific topic I don’t think you will find one off the shelf.

    • #127196
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Customized headers has been a challenge for many years. Harbs at In-Tools came up with an amazing solution, but it has not been updated (as far as I know) for the past several years, so it won’t work for most users: https://in-tools.com/products/plugins/power-headers/
      I keep hoping that he’ll update it, or have someone else update it…

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