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How do you do chapter titles in InDesign?

I am doing a book layout in InDesign.  The book I am laying out is basically a large collections of related short stories and such that each have their own title.  I would like to auto populate the titles throughout the header of each of the pages so you know what story you are on.  I used the "Section Marker" to do this and it seemed to work perfectly except it doesn't handle longer titles very well.  Is there a better way to do this?
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schizek,

You might want to give variables for running headers a try. One warning, these are kind of tricky. Not that you won't understand what's going on, just that they don't break. If it's a really long header and you want it to wrap, this probably won't work for you.

There's a tutorial here that does a much better job describing it than I could.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/6.0/WS6A9BE096-77B2-4721-9736-797C4912B6C9a.html

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MH
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I ended up continuing to use the "Section Markers" since that was the most convenient.  I only had a few that were too long so I unlocked those individually and adjusted as necessary.

Thank you for the help!  That's a good alternative.