From your comments I can see that you mean the marks in the page header but not the chapter headings.
The fancyhdr package is very popular for customizing page headers and footers. Here's a minimal way to change your header like desired, if everything is default:
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand*{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{\MakeUppercase{#1}}{}}}
See also the fancyhdr documentation.
Here's the solution for the chapter heading, in case you like to do it similar to the page header, for consistency:
You could use the titlesec package, for example write in your preamble:
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}
{\normalfont\huge\bfseries}{\thechapter}{1em}{}
This way by \chapter{Introduction} you would get:
1 Introduction
Have a look at the documentation to titlesec.
I guess you wish to keep the numbering, otherwise you could simply write \chapter*{Introduction}. Further I assume you don't wish to write everything in capital letters - or do you?
I prefer scrreprt instead of report. This class is similar to report but provides many further features. It's default chapter headings style matches the one desired by you.
After reading (and re-reading) the Memoir manual, I've found answers to the specific questions asked (added here for future reference):
- chapter titles do not appear in table of contents.
Solution: add
\addcontentsline
- footnote numbers do not reset to 1.
Solution: use
\refstepcounter at the chapter level.
- heading text not being updated.
Solution: use the optional argument to
\chapter*
Therefore, a rough equivalent to
\chapter{My Chapter Title}
without numbering is:
\chapter*[My Chapter Title]{My Chapter Title}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{My Chapter Title}
\refstepcounter{chapter}
I hope no more differences appear...
Best Answer
If you're working in the book documentclass, then you should use the starred version of
\chapterto obtain a chapter without the counter visible. SeeThe addition of
\markboth{...}{...}ensures that the correct page heading is followed as with the other regular (unstarred)\chapter{...}commands.