# Chapter names in header or footer?

**URL:** <https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/chapter-names-in-header-or-footer/22728>\
**Category:** Scrivener for macOS\
**Tags:** support\
**Created:** [June 13, 2013, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/chapter-names-in-header-or-footer/22728 "2013-06-13T15:01:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![johnruexp](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aca169/32.png) [@johnruexp](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/johnruexp)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/chapter-names-in-header-or-footer/22728/1 "2013-06-13T15:01:26Z")

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Tried to find this in a previous question, but couldn’t locate it:

Is there a way to get Chapter names and/or numbers automatically included in headers or footers after compile?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Briar\_Kit](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Briar\_Kit](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Briar_Kit)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 5:13pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/chapter-names-in-header-or-footer/22728/2 "2013-06-13T17:13:26Z")

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You can do this via tags. This thread might help…

> [@Header titles](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/header-titles/19404/2):
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> Have a look at the Placeholder Tags List in the Help Menu. It contains the following text about headers and footers… I’m not sure that you can do this just for selected documents though - I think it’s a Project wide setting. You can auto-generate synopses for selected documents by selecting them in the binder and choosing Documents \> Auto-generate Synopses. The synopsis is taken from the first 500 characters of the text. HTH David

> [@](#):
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> \<$sectiontitle\>  
> Gets replaced with the title of the document that first comes after the page break most recently preceding the header or footer in which it occurs. In practice, this is useful for placing chapter titles in headers or footers. For instance, if you have a chapter in a single text document starting on a new page, then that document’s title will replace “\<$sectiontitle\>”; if your chapters are broken down into smaller sections placed inside folders, and the folders mark the start of each new chapter, then the folder’s title will replace “\<$sectiontitle\>” throughout the chapter headers and footers.

Section 24.22.1 of the user manual has more info.  
[literatureandlatte.com/docum … df#page405](http://www.literatureandlatte.com/documentation/scrivener-manual-a4.pdf#page405)

Headers are impacted by the compile format. Depends on what you are compiling to.

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**Author:** ![johnruexp](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aca169/32.png) [@johnruexp](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/johnruexp)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/chapter-names-in-header-or-footer/22728/3 "2013-06-13T17:23:03Z")

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I’m proofing in WORD. Your “\<$sectiontitle\>” technique worked – thank you very much! 😃

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**Author:** ![Briar\_Kit](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Briar\_Kit](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Briar_Kit)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/chapter-names-in-header-or-footer/22728/4 "2013-06-13T17:46:07Z")

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Glad it worked. Good luck with the work.