Page headers and footers

Numbering pages

You can format the page number and set the numbering style using the Section Manager. This manager also lets you create multiple sections (e.g. Preface, Table of contents, Index, etc.) which can be named and have different starting page numbers and numbering styles.

Page numbers are inserted as fields (via the Fields panel or Text>Insert>Fields>Page Number), which dynamically update.

To suppress page numbering on initial sections of a publication (e.g. Contents or Preface), don't assign a master page that contains page number fields to their pages.

Naming pages

Names that identify a page's place in a publication are inserted as fields. At their simplest, you might use a field that displays the section name to which a page belongs. You can specify section names for page ranges in the Section Manager.

Alternatively, you can use a running header, which displays text that appears on the same or an earlier page and which is formatted with a specific paragraph or character style. A running header's text 'runs' for multiple pages—i.e. does not change—until another application of the text style is encountered.

The following source options are available to specify the source of a running header's text:

• Style—specify the text style applied to the document text you want the field to display.
• Use—when the text style is applied multiple times on a page, specify whether the running header displays the text of the First on page or the Last on page.

Formatting a running header

The Running Header field's formatting options allow you to limit the amount of text displayed by the field. This might be due to the source text being too long to display in full, or for other aesthetic reasons.

Running headers can transform their text's capitalisation, or to simply repeat their source's capitalisation.

The following formatting options are available for running headers:

• Include Paragraph Numbering—when the text style is applied to numbered lists, turn on to include list item numbers in the running header or turn off to exclude them.
• Apply Limits—turn on to make the following options available to limit the running header's length:
  • End on—specify which characters will automatically end the running header, if the text style is also applied immediately after them.
  • Include End Character—specify whether to include or exclude the terminating end character in the running header.
  • Max Word Count—specify the maximum number of words to be displayed by the running header.
  • Use Ellipsis—specify whether an ellipsis should be displayed at the end of a running header whose length has been limited.
• Case Change—specify the text transformation to apply to the displayed text: None, Upper, Lower, Title or Sentence.