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Having followed the relevant instructions in the Help section to the letter, I am finding that I cannot get the headers of different sections to display different contents: all I get is the same header content imposed all the way through the document. How do we get the headers (and the footers, for that matter) to be sensitive to the section breaks we've inserted?

My basic task here is simply that I want to have chapters each have their own header. I could work around this by making each chapter a separate document, but that requires manually readjusting pagination, and it seems clear that Nisus should be able to handle something this simple. So what am I doing wrong?

Most likely you are having troubles because of a bug in Express 2.6. Here's what to do: Place the insertion point (caret) into the section you would like to add custom headers to. Make sure the caret is resting inside the main document body, not the header/footer itself. The Sections palette titlebar should show the number of the section you are in, eg: "Section 2". Then turn on the "Different This Section" option.

Had you placed the caret into the header/footer itself, the Sections palette would show you options for the section that the current header/footer was displaying. Eg: if no custom headers/footers were turned on for section 2, then the Sections palette would modify section 1.

This is fixed in our (free) upcoming update, Express 2.7.