How to Create a Running Header in InDesign

A running header or running head is an important editorial design element for catalogs, magazines, books and most long format documents. In this video I will show you how to set up a universal running header for a magazine in Adobe InDesign by using a Text Variable with a Character Style.

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Table of contents:
0:00 Intro
0:24 Setup Character Style
1:34 Running Header settings / Text Variable
3:34 Master Page Options
4:10 Running Header settings