Auto-numbering figures across files

[Emhoff, Heidi]

Ahhh!!! Beautiful!! Thanks, Dave (and everyone else who responded). I didn't know I had to update the book. I knew I was missing something simple. It would have been nice if the FrameMaker help file/manual would have included a note or something reminding us to update the on the page that talks about setting the paragraph number in the properties. It just never occurred to me that I would have to do that as the page numbers update right away when you set the properties for them...

Anyway, thanks!!

Always,

Heidi Emhoff

-----Original Message-----
From: dave.reynolds at tait.co.nz [mailto:dave.reynolds at tait.co.nz] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 8:51 PM
To: Emhoff, Heidi
Subject: Re: Auto-numbering figures across files

Hi Heidi

You have to update the book for book-wide numbering to work (i.e. be 
updated).

cheers

Dave

Emhoff, Heidi wrote, on 2/12/2009 10:06 a.m.:
> 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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