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Hello and I ask for help again, helpful people.
Using the latest InDesign on a Mac, which is not a MAC.
Using Styled Text, including for chapter and sub-headings.
I am typesetting a book, as so many self-publishing authors do these days.
I have used A Master to place the Book Title on the verso page heading, and for the recto heading, I entered ‘Section’, to make it change each time for each new chapter.
I entered Chapter names, as I moved through the text, in Layout -> Numbering and Section options -> Section Marker. Everything worked fine, chapter titles appeared where they should, all was rosy.
Until I found some overset text on page 5. I fixed this, never mind how just at present, I'll cut to the chase. But now all my chapter names change ONE PAGE BEFORE they should.
Changing Layout -> Numbering and Section options -> Section Marker makes no difference to the wrong names.
So my questions: What ‘marker’ is Indesign looking for in the text to indicate a new chapter?
Is there one missing 'marker' that has thrown out the whole sequence?
How do I add/insert it, and where?
Will I have to start again and reset the whole 230 pages and 500+ illustrations in new spreads ?
With thanks,
Stephen Gard
Uwe,
The solution was simple.
Go the Pages panel, right-click on each grey triangle above a spread or page, select 'Delete Section.'
I then went through the pages and using Layout -> Numbering and Section Options correctly commenced and named the Chapters i.e. sections.
My mistake was that I had duplicated one or two Section starts, which threw everything out of alignment.
With thanks again for your help and courtesy,
Stephen Gard
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What do you mean "on a Mac which is not a Mac"?
You don't sound as if you're using Master Pages properly when you state you Place a book title on it -- you use Master pages for repeating things like folios.
I suggest you get some basic lessons in using InDesign before you proceed further -- one way are the LinkedIn Learning online video tutorials -- you can get a 30-day free trial.
Return to this friendly forum for particular questions of course.
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Hi Stephen,
the marker you are looking for is a "Section".
You can add section markers or remove section markers with the Pages panel. Start section markers are applied to pages there. So in effect a section is a property of the document that has a start page and could have a name as well ( together with some other things ).
More details here:
https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/numbering-pages-chapters-sections.html
Regards,
Uwe Laubender
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Uwe,
Thank you for your kind and respectful response.
I shall check out the link you include, and return here if I require further advice and assistance.
Stephen Gard
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Hi Stephen,
to exactly see what's going wrong one would need to look into your actual document.
Can you show a screenshot of the Pages panel with the sections showing?
Also how you defined your text variables that should reflect your chapter names?
Regards,
Uwe Laubender
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Uwe,
The solution was simple.
Go the Pages panel, right-click on each grey triangle above a spread or page, select 'Delete Section.'
I then went through the pages and using Layout -> Numbering and Section Options correctly commenced and named the Chapters i.e. sections.
My mistake was that I had duplicated one or two Section starts, which threw everything out of alignment.
With thanks again for your help and courtesy,
Stephen Gard