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That works beautifully, thanks very much.

yes

This is just redefining the section command so that it doesn't come up with a section number (without this line it would come up with "1.1 name of section", this way it only shows the section name). The negative hspace is simply removing the indent

Good point, apologies.

Here is the code. I think the problem lies in the re-definition of the section, but I have no idea how to solve it. In the header on the last page, it doesn't say "Short title of sec" but puts a dot in front of it so it reads ". Short title of sec". Any help is much ...

Hi I am using fancyhdr for a book. I am using both \leftmark, which is working fine putting the chapter names on the header, and \rightmark, which is giving me a problem: it does put the section names in, as it should, but it adds a dot to the left. I am quite lost.