Cannot figure out how to create a variable for two paragraph styles

[Ken27394707dkz1]

I have two paragraph tags/styles named Title and Subtitle.

I cannot figure out how to create a custom variable with the correct syntax for each. 😞

I want to put them in the header of each master page.

[Bob_Niland]

If I understand what you intend, FM has a feature specifically for that:
Insert » Variables… » Running H/F #
🖉 edit var to designate para picked up

[Ken27394707dkz1]

Well I tried that but does not work.

[Winfried Reng]

What does not work? What do you see in the header?

Do you have a paragraph with this format in your body page?

[Bob_Niland]

A more brute-force method is to create two variables, each containing just the raw text for the Title & Subtitle (and no other formatting or mark-up), and use those to populate both the various title pages, and the Master Page header/footers.

[Ken27394707dkz1]

I think I will try that, Thanks!

[Bob_Niland]

Yet another method is that header/footer MP content can also be Cross-References, perhaps in this case to title page content, format <$paratext>.
That will, however, create hypertext links to the source page, which you may or may not desire.

If there were only one way to do it, it wouldn't be FM.