Headers with text aligned to left and right

[MarinaMichaels]

I am creating PDF output to match our company's Word styles. We don't have unique left/right pages; the text in the headers is like this:

Document Title (left-aligned) (space here) Section Title (right-aligned)
(entire header area has a half-point blue line/border underneath)

How can I create this alignment in my right and left layout pages? I tried inserting separate header frames, but that ended up with text overwriting when the content went to the next page.

A separate question: what setting do I use to get the topics to flow from one to another instead of starting a new page with each topic?

Thanks!

[Psider]

If you don't have unique left and right pages, then I don't think you should have them in the page layout. Instead just define a Normal page and delete the left and right definitions - you might like to do this in a copy of your project, to make sure you don't accidentally lose something important.

I think you've probably got page-break-before specified for each topic heading style in your stylesheet. If all your topic headings are H1, then go into your stylesheet, select H1 and ensure page-break-before is set to avoid. You may have to define this in the Print medium, rather than Default.

HTH,
Amber

[Greg]

I find the easiest way to get text aligned both right and left in the header is to insert a table in the header with two columns (one row).
Put the text you want right justified in the right cell and left justified text in the left.

[MarinaMichaels]

Thanks to both of you! I think the table solution will work, and yes, h1 had page break before set to always, so I changed that in the print medium.

I am preserving the left/right pages because, although our company style doesn't need it, I also plan to use this template as a basis for projects we might do for clients who might have different needs (we do a lot of contract work). Though I suppose it would be easy enough to create left/right pages when needed.

Anyway, thanks again.

[MarinaMichaels]

The table solution worked perfectly. Thanks!

I still cannot get the topics to flow. I've changed all the heading levels to avoid page breaks before (edit: in first just the print medium stylesheet, then also in the default), and yet there are still page breaks before each new topic in the PDF output. Am I missing another setting somewhere? Thanks!

[LTinker68]

I still cannot get the topics to flow. I've changed all the heading levels to avoid page breaks before (edit: in first just the print medium stylesheet, then also in the default), and yet there are still page breaks before each new topic in the PDF output. Am I missing another setting somewhere? Thanks!

In the TOC Properties, did you set each topic to be the start of a new chapter and specified a page layout, or did you only specify that in one topic and all the others are inheriting that setting?

[MarinaMichaels]

I specified the page break settings for each topic. If I only set those settings for the chapter-level topics, then all the topics run together, which is sort of what I want, except that I want a break at the chapter-level topics, and that isn't working. I'll keep experimenting with the settings. Thanks!

[Msquared]

Could your topics start with a heading style that has

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page-break-before: always 

set?

[MarinaMichaels]

Thanks...no, all the heading styles are set to avoid page breaks before. But that was a good thought.

[MarinaMichaels]

Following up: I have figured out how to get the various topics to flow or start on a new page; everything looks good. Thank you, everyone, for your help.