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Automate Chapter Headers and Section Titles in Adobe InDesign
If you’re familiar with Adobe InDesign and Master Pages, you may have wondered how to automatically display the current chapter title at the top of each page. Or maybe your document is using different sections, and you want the current section to automatically appear on each page. Here are some tips...
Create a Running Header
To insert dynamic chapter titles in InDesign Master Pages, you first create a paragraph style for your chapter names and name it something like 'Chapter Name'. Once the style is created you go to Type > Text Variables > Define... In the window that appears, select Running Header and click the 'Edit' button. Then in the Style dropdown menu select your 'Chapter Name' paragraph style.
Dynamic Chapter Title
Next, go to your Master Page, and insert a text frame where you want the chapter title to appear. With the text cursor blinking in that text field go to Type > Text Variables > Insert Variable > Running Header. This will insert a text snippet <Running Header> (or the name you entered in the Name field). This will now automatically display your 'chapter name' (paragraph style) on each page where this Master Page is applied.
Section Marker
Maybe you're (also) working with different sections in your document and instead of showing the chapters, you just want to have the sections appear dynamically. Or maybe you want to show both the section and the chapter (more info on how to create sections in InDesign). When you create a section, you create a so called 'Section Marker'. Besides the page numbering options, you also have the option to give this 'Section Marker' a name. Here you enter the exact text of how you want this section to appear in your document.
Automatic Sections
Once this is done for each section of your document that you want to show, go to the Master Pages that is applied to the pages of your document and have your text cursor in the text field where you want this section title to appear. If needed create a new text field. Now with the text cursor blinking in that text field go to Type > Insert Special Characters > Markers > Section Marker. The word 'Section' will appear in the text field. This will now show the text that you entered in the 'Section Marker' field in your document on the pages where this Master Page is applied to. As you might have noticed from that menu list, there is also Current Page Number, and Section Number. So the same method applies for adding those into your document.