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Many books before 1800 used a feature called catchwords, repeating the first word of the page at the bottom of the previous page. Wikipedia has a small article on them and there's a good question about them on english.stackexchange.com.

How can I add these to my document using InDesign?

I'm using InDesign CS6. Somehow I imagine there isn't a way to do this (short of some horrible script to run) but I'm not sure.

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As others have pointed out, this is a perfect opportunity for a scripted solution. The upside of scripting it (vs doing it by hand) is that you could tag the dupes with a label so the process could be updated on reflow. It really shouldn't be that difficult to do in javascript. Check out the InDesign Scripting forum for more complete guidance.

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