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romantic_Brilliance5FCC
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March 19, 2020
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Running footer picking up wrong chapter title

  • March 19, 2020
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I have a very long (100+ pages) document with running footers that are set to pick up the H1 attribute for chapter titles. But I have one chapter that absolutely refuses to recognize the new chapter title in the footer. It's picking up the chapter title from the previous chapter.
How do I get the footer to recognize the new chapter title?

(I'm working from a template I inherited from a previous designer, so I'm just figuring out how to use this feature of InDesign and may not be able to tell you how it was set up initially.)

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Correct answer romantic_Brilliance5FCC

I actually just figured out the problem. The text frame that contained the chapter title didn't thread to the following text. Once I made sure the chapter title flowed to the content that followed, the title showed up in the footer. Still seems weird, but maybe that's how InDesign works?

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David Popham
David Popham
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March 19, 2020

Can you provide your InDesign version and a screenshot of the Edit Text Variable setup (Type > Text Variables > Define) for the variable that is being used?

 

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    romantic_Brilliance5FCCAuthorCorrect answer
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    March 19, 2020

    I actually just figured out the problem. The text frame that contained the chapter title didn't thread to the following text. Once I made sure the chapter title flowed to the content that followed, the title showed up in the footer. Still seems weird, but maybe that's how InDesign works?

    Geоrge
    Geоrge
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    March 19, 2020

    Is this bugged footer use it exact paragraph style that in not a bugged footers?

    Remember, never say you can't do something in InDesign, it's always just a question of finding the right workaround to get the job done. © David Blatner
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      romantic_Brilliance5FCCAuthor
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      March 19, 2020

      Yes, I've triple checked. All are using the same paragraph style.

       

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