Client sent a formatted book of approx 200pp w/15 chps in MWord. It's all one story. No sections or breaks for chps.
I realized by mistake, I cannot copy/paste w/o losing some formatting. Therefore I imported into InD which saved the footnotes in body text etc. and the footer footnotes still link (and follow) the matching text footnote.
I also realized this created a single master page for entire book. As I generate header text (incl chp # & title on right hand page) in the master, it of course adds this same header to ALL pages as it should.
If I attempt an additional master page for each chp, based on first master page (A) (to continue all the guides etc), I then cannot select the header to edit it for the next chp. Even shift-select does not work. I cannot edit headers in additional masters.
Plus I do not see folios at bottom, only the cap letters for the master (A). In an earlier attempt with copy/paste of same Word doc, I had no problem with masters. Folios appeared and automatically sequenced through each page, even with additional masters for each chp. Plus I could select the headers and edit them accordingly for chps.
It appears it's the import function that's really creating reformatting problems in InD. It's bad. Subtitles, leading space etc, all are nightmare to reformat to my layout design I originally submitted to client.
Main question is how can I create masters that work for each chp which also display sequential folios throughout book?
I tried reformatting Word doc into Sections for each chp, but that made matters worse in that, the sections then had their OWN number sequence each starting with page 1. I thought by importing Sections, perhaps a new master could then be created for each chp. But no go apparently.
thanks for any solutions...
Larry