InDesign: how do I edit author names in headings after deleting a page?

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Hello!I put a multi-author anthology together last month and using tutorials got it so that one of my Master page types always took the author name from "Section" on the right-hand page header. I am not sure what that tutorial was, I seem to have lost it. Now, I have deleted an extra page that was occurring halfway through, and although I've successfully applied the right master pages everywhere after the subsequent pages got shuffled forward, the first instance of the master page in each story now has the wrong author name. I need to change what sections apply to ehich pages, but I'm not sure where to do this. Can anyone help please?

Wishusdonna · Accepted Answer

Solved! I was put off by the warniing messages, but it is a simple case of clicking on each page where I want that section to start and naming the section marker, as if doing it fresh.

Peter Spier · Answer

Without seeing your filew it's impossibl;e to say, but you might avoid this problem in futre by defining a Running Header Variable and using that on the Parent/Master page instead. Running Header varialble can be set to trigger on either a character style or a paragraph style and insert either the first or last occurrence of corresponding styles text from the page. The same runnning header will appear across multiple pages until a new trigger is encountered.

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