: How can I automate Apply Master and Start Section selections? One step in the workflow of editing a 300-page multi-chapter book in Adobe InDesign CC that I don’t enjoy is the tedious and

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One step in the workflow of editing a 300-page multi-chapter book in Adobe InDesign CC that I don’t enjoy is the tedious and error-prone manual process of assigning a distinct Master Page (one with a different running header) and setting Start Section (to restart footnote numbering) to some of my pages.

I have five page masters: front matter without folio, normal front matter, end matter, regular pages, and chapter titles. I can assign the front and end matter masters easily enough by hand. Most of the remaining pages will have the regular master style, but I want to do these things:


assign the Chapter Title master page, and
set Start Section


for each page that either


contains a “Chapter Title” paragraph style element, or
is a blank page preceding a page containing a “Chapter Title” style element.


Whenever I add or delete a page, I have to riffle manually through my 300-page book again, clicking several times per page for several pages.

Is this the kind of thing that I should be able to automate in InDesign CC?

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