Auto-numbering figures across files

[Art Campbell]

Heidi,
You mention that you've set the numbering properties, but you don't say
where you've set them.

For a book to increment across component chapters, you must set them in the
book, not in a chapter(s). Select all component chapters in the book file,
right click, select Numbering, and verify that the numbering property for
the Paragraphs tab is set to increment.

Then Save and update the book.

Art

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On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Emhoff, Heidi
<emhoffh at software-answers.com>wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I am having a heck of a time trying to get my figure numbering to increase
> across files in a book. For example, in chapter 1, if my last graphic was
> Figure 1, then in chapter 2 when when I insert the caption for my first
> figure, I want it to be labeled Figure 2. I have set the Document Properties
> for Paragraph Numbering to "Continue from Previous File in Book" but that is
> not helping; in every chapter, the figure numbering is starting over again.
>
> The Autonumber Format is turned on for my Caption paragraph tag as:
> F:Figure <n+>.\sn
>
> I don't understand what I'm missing here. The autonumbering should allow
> you to have a cumulative figure number throughout the book, shouldn't it?
>
> Please help me if you can! Thanks!
>
> (I'm using FrameMaker 8 and the unstructured formatting.)
>
>
> Heidi A. Emhoff
> Documentation Specialist
> Software Answers, Inc.
> 440.526.0095 x3044
>
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