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True, but this solutions works very well and automatically - if the symbol does trail the text. Which is not a far-fetched possibility.

And actually, you could set this up in a more convoluted (but automatic, once it's set up) way.

I set up "bt booktitle" and "sy symbol" paragraph styles, both with the run-in property described earlier. As an example, I enter:

Microslough<sy>(r) Exploder<sy>(tm) etc.

In my master page header(s), I use as many cross references as I need to the "bt booktitle" paragraph(s), with spaces between -- thus ignoring the symbols between those words.

The book title displays "Microslough(r) Exploder(tm)."

The headers display "Microslough Exploder"

The only catch is the book title must be left-aligned.

Convoluted, but once it's in, it's in -- and it IS another valid option. If a title changes, it changes throughout the book.

Whereas you need to be careful with book-wide variables when you might also have chapter-level variables that could get trashed by your global import.

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