Ok, that would be the reason, I had a return in the heading. The reason I did this is because if I didn't do it there would have been a hyphen between one of the words with only two letters on the second which looked really funny.

The odd thing still is that the text variable is set as being the first on the page and yet the variable is showing the last line of the header. I suppose if I wasn't having this problem I could make a text variable for both the first and last line so that both lines would show up in the header. Do you have any ideas as to why my text variable is showing me the last line when I set it for the first line?

I got it to work now. It appeared to be a bug from InDesign. I had to restart my computer because it was running slow then when I tried adding the text variable this time it mostly worked. The only thing that isn't currently working is the text variables don't work with one chapter that has two lines of text in it's heading. It is only picking up the second line of text and leaving out the first.

I have decided to just go ahead and make the quote mark a drop down as well. I was looking through a magazine the other day where I saw it used that way and it worked well. I never noticed that it was done that way before. I assumed that quote marks don't “drop down” like letters do so you wouldn't apply a drop cap style to the quote mark but I was wrong.

Ok, I understand now. I was reading “Real World Indesign” and they tell you to set up the drop cap as a character style then go to the paragraph panel to “drop caps and nested styles.” When done this way it doesn't save it as a paragraph style and when it doesn't save it as a paragraph style you can't reapply it. I guess I got confused when there were two ways to get to “drop caps and nested styles” and one way doesn't save it as a paragraph style.

Thanks for the help, this my first time using InDesign for making a book. The past few years I have only been using it for simple things like flyers and posters.