Running Chapter Heads not working

Question

I'm a little embarrased. I've done this before and can't remember how, so have been reading and googling and you-tubing and am hoping someone here can just tell me what to do!

Goal: Running chapter heads in a book, on right hand page, need to automatically change to new echapter title when beginning a new section.

I've tried it from the numbering and section options, as well as creating a text variable. The variable seemed like it might work but it's using the first title in the document for all the chapters instead of pulling from an individual section's title. (So now all the running headers say "preface"!)

Thank you in advance.

Don't know if screenshots help, but this is where I've been trying to make it work.

Manan Joshi · Accepted Answer

Two things, one was mentioned by @Willi Adelberger that it seems your header should be based on Chapter title style. However, even with this, the value of the header is "Preface" across the document. The reason this is so is that all the other chapter titles are placed in a seperate frame which is not threaded to the main document threaded frame. This thing is discussed in the following thread

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/running-header-refers-to-previous-chapter/m-p/11106140#M185037

So the solution for you would be to accomodate the chapter titles in the threaded frame itself

-Manan

Manan Joshi · Answer

Hi @saxtonstudio,Can you cross check that the style on which the running header is based is applied properly on the pages giving you troubles? Also it would be nice if you could share a sample document so that we can test it as well, also describe specific use case on what result do you expect w.r.t the pages in the document.-Manan

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