Numbering Problems in a book

[Susan McDonald]

Make sure all of your files in the book are open and that you are selecting all of the files in the book file. Then, make sure the page numbering is set to continue from previous file. After you do that, with all the files still selected, save the files. (I don't think you also have to save the book file itself, but it wouldn't hurt.) 

Then, when you generate the file, are you still receiving the inconsistency message?

Thanks!


Susan McDonald
Senior Technical Writer


On Apr 5, 2012, at 1:00 PM, "Andy Smith \(WFL\)" <andy.smith at wingedfeet.co.uk> wrote:

> Frame 10, Windows 7, 
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> Is there some esoteric secret to getting the numbering to behave in a book?
> I've been bitten by this before so I've been quite careful this time only to
> access the numbering dialog through the book window. Despite that I still
> get a warning of conflicts between numbering in the book and in the
> document. Then I find that when I set the numbering for pages and paragraphs
> they rarely stick. I'm running update book but I'm wondering if there is
> something else that I'm missing. At the moment my document is showing the
> page numbers following on from each chapter into the next but the total
> number of pages is showing the number of pages in the chapter rather than
> the total number of pages in the book. 
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> I seem to have a lot of trouble getting this to work and considering
> FrameMaker's reputation for stability once it's set up it doesn't seem to be
> very reliable.
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> Andy W. Smith
> Winged Feet Ltd.,
> Technical Writing, Documentation and Copywriting Services,
> Hemel Hempstead,
> England.
>