![]() ![]() One was called “Page Heading” and the other was called “Page Heading – NOT CONTENTS” – anything that I didn’t want to appear on the contents page (for example a really long page heading that looked messy in the contents page), got the second style.Īnother workaround I had was when I wanted to use abbreviations on the contents page, but the full text on the page heading – (for example – PPE & Personal Protective Equipment). So any changes to the original style would still be reflected. I created a Paragraph Style, based on the style that was the one creating the variable text – that also did nothing. Nice tip… I had a slightly different solution to the problem. through using a nested style and you’ll never need to worry :) Ooooh and what if you don’t want to manually apply the character style (as in case 2 above)? Apply the character style that does nothing to any of the heading styles (e.g. Once that’s done, all you’ve gotta do is highlight the text you’d like to see in the running header and you’re cooking with gas ) This is when the hidden character style trick comes into play.Īll you’ve got to do is create a character style that does absolutely nothing -) Yup, you heard it right? it does nothing? doesn’t apply any settings? it just exists.įor the running header, change the Running Header (Paragraph Style) to Character Style and set the Style to the character style you created in the previous step. what if you are using multiple paragraph heading styles (say heading 1, heading 2, heading 3) and you always want the first or last one used to populate the variable placeholder you’ve so nicely inserted on the master page?.what if you only want part of a header to be copied into the text variable placeholder OR.However there are some situations where the link to a paragraph style might not work. Generally running headers copy text formatted with a particular paragraph style into the running header text variable. In short: To define a new Running Header text variable: Type menu > Text Variables > Define… Select Running Header, then New… Once you’ve defined the style, Insert the variable in the placeholder area on the master page. Amongst a number of other things we can use them to automatically generate running headers at the top of book or report pages, by placing a text variable placeholder on the master page that automatically inserts text formatted with a pre-allocated paragraph style. ![]() This is a tip I’ve been meaning to write-up for sometime? it ended up on the backburner with a lot of other tips and outstanding projects in the past couple of months?īack in InDesign CS3 Text Variables were introduced. ![]()
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