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lisamuell
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January 11, 2018
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Indesign: first and last word in the header of the page (phone book)

  • January 11, 2018
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hey everyone!

in my document, i have content that is similiar to a phone book content, and like in phone books, i want the first and last word (or even better: the first and last paragraph) of the page to appear in the header of the page. i have a very large amount of text, so i can't do it manually. do you know if there's an indesign tool that just does that? like, selecting this information by itself and always putting it into the right textframe, like page numbers?

i'm attaching a photo with what i mean.

every help is appreciated!

thanks xx

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Yes, it can certainly be done.

You need to set up a couple of running-header text variables based on a character style that you create specially and apply to all the names in the directory (I think they can be applied via a nested style as well, so they could be part of the paragraph style definition you're using for names -- not sure about that offhand, but I seem to recall that that is the case).

For the details about how to do this, check out Adobe's Help page here: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/numbering-pages-chapters-sections.html

Learn how to number pages, chapters, and sections in InDesign

(scroll about halfway down to the section called "Create Headers and Footers".

HTH,

Ariel

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Legend
January 11, 2018

Yes, it can certainly be done.

You need to set up a couple of running-header text variables based on a character style that you create specially and apply to all the names in the directory (I think they can be applied via a nested style as well, so they could be part of the paragraph style definition you're using for names -- not sure about that offhand, but I seem to recall that that is the case).

For the details about how to do this, check out Adobe's Help page here: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/numbering-pages-chapters-sections.html

Learn how to number pages, chapters, and sections in InDesign

(scroll about halfway down to the section called "Create Headers and Footers".

HTH,

Ariel

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lisamuellAuthor
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January 13, 2018

Thanks man, that helped!

Just too bad that InDesign can't make running headers with several lines in it. But it seems that can't be fixed

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