Running Heading (Continued) within text boxes

[Spoffenstein]

I have a lengthy document, with many articles called "Boxes" that can run for several pages.

The first page will say, for example, "Box 1.1. This is the title text."

I want every threaded text boxes on pages 2+ to have "Box 1.1. (continued)" automatically appear at the top, followed by the uninterrupted flow of the narrative text. The continued title should not show up on the ToC.

Is this possible? (Feels like it should be.) I have tried searching online for a tut, but suspect I am not using the proper terminology.

[Barb Binder]

Hi @Spoffenstein, and welcome to the InDesign Community forum.

No, this is not a feature of InDesign. (It is in Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe's other page layout program, used for technical document layout.) Scripting extends InDesign's feature set (not my area of expertise). Otherwise, you will need to do this manually.

~Barb

[Spoffenstein]

Thanks Barb, that is good to know—yeah, we're an InDesign studio, no FrameMaker on the premises.

[John D Herzog]

You can use the Running Header text variable and two parent pages, setting one parent page to have just the Running Header or nothing and the second parent page to have the Running Header and " (continued)".

[Barb Binder]

Maybe I misunderstood the question. 

@Spoffenstein Do you want the title in the top margin—as a running head—or in the box title at the top of the image area?

~Barb

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@Barb Binder

I think it's just Running Headers - I don't see anything about images?

[Spoffenstein]

This is our current solution, I was hoping maybe there was a new feature I wasn't aware of.

[FRIdNGE]

You just need features that have always existed in InDesign since CS3! … So a twenty years.

Nested Styles + Grep Style + a simplistic Grep Find/Replace

Before the Grep F/R:

After the Grep F/R:

… So, just 1 click!

(^/)  The Jedi

[FRIdNGE]

Own solution with more details on fridnge.com:

https://fridnge.com/continued-header/

(^/)