Hi,

I've created a multi-section document in InDesign CS. I'd like each odd-numbered header to contain that section's title.

After hours of thrashing around with the in-program help, user guide, third-party books, and this forum, I think I've finally figured out what to do:

_ In my master page with an odd-page header (as opposed to the first page of a chapter, with no header), I right-clicked the header's text frame and added a Section Marker (under Special Characters). This caused the word "Section" to appear there.

_ In the Pages palette, I selected the first odd-number page of each chapter that had a header, and used the palette menu's Numbering and Section Options dialog box to enter the chapter name in the Section Marker text-box. This caused the section's name to appear in that section's headers.

Have I done this the best way? Or was it a kludge? (For you non-programmer types, a "kludge" is something that works, but is clumsy or patched-together.)

I'm wondering, because this document will often be revised and reissued. As its content is changed, the shift of a single pagebreak will throw off the entire header-title method I've described. Am I supposed to go through the whole book each time that happens, and re-specify the location of each section, and its title?

Or did I approach this the wrong way? Should I have saved each section as a separate file and made them parts of a single "book" file? That way (and I'm theorizing here), each section's headers would remain independent of the others', right?

If that's correct, what's the most practical way that I can now make each section into own file?

And is there a way to have each section always contain an even number of pages, so that headerless pages don't occur in the book? Or must that be maintained manually, in each section?

Sorry for the long message. Hope I've made sense here.

Cheers, Andy