Opening all text insets in all components in a book ... phew!

[hedley.finger at myob.com]

All:

Some time before IBM released DITA to a puzzled and unsuspecting world, a 
colleague of mine solved the problem of repurposing/reusing small 
fragments of content using text insets.  Basically, the components of a 
book consist of shell files that contain nothing but text insets.  This 
scheme allows relevant text insets to be included in many different 
training manuals, depending on the target readership and course 
requirements.

Problem:  while you can Open All Files in a book, there appears to be no 
global way of opening all the text insets in all the components of a book. 
 Please tell me there is some secret keyboard shortcut or undocumented 
feature that can do this.  Please tell me we do not have to resort to 
FrameScript.  Please tell me there is an alternative to searching for 
every text inset in a book and clicking Open Source as each is 
highlighted.  Please tell me Adobe are working on this right now for the 
mythical (?) v 8.0.

You can imagine the benefits for spell-checking, etc. globally over the 
entire content of a publication, and other global tasks, e.g. fixing 
cross-references, etc.

Regards,
Hedley

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Hedley Finger
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