Running Heading (Continued) within text boxes

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May 29, 2024
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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.

How to

John D Herzog

Inspiring

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)".

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SpoffensteinAuthor

Participant

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

Barb Binder

Community Expert

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

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

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SpoffensteinAuthor

Participant

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

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