FM 7.1 cannot find file to cross-ref to

[Emmy A.]

Bingo! That solved it, Fred. Thank you very much. What a great list.

Emmy A.

--- On Thu, 7/3/08, Fred Ridder <docudoc at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Fred Ridder <docudoc at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: FM 7.1 cannot find file to cross-ref to
> To: maisieari at yahoo.com, framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Cc: jane.arteaga at hp.com
> Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008, 2:22 PM
> > To be more clear, only one instance of Frame is open. 
> > When ALL files in the book are open, it is possible to
> 
> > create a cross-ref to another file of the book. FM
> correctly 
> > lists all the book files in the Document drop-down
> list. 
> > However, when only the two files are open, FM does 
> > not list the other file name in the Document drop-down
> 
> > list, only the Current file. This is true when any two
> 
> > files are open. It's a puzzlement.
>  
> I recall seeing this behavior in FrameMaker 6.0, but had
> never
> noticed in in FM7.x (maybe because I usually have more than
> 
> two files open). I seem to recall that the issue was a
> display
> bug--the list box would not display up and down scroll
> buttons 
> when there were only two items in the list, apparently
> because 
> the list was too short to fit the buttons. But I also seem
> to 
> recall that I could use the cursor keys (the down arrow, 
> specifically) to highlight the otherwise invisible 2nd item
> in 
> the list. But I could be making that up...
>  
> -Fred Ridder