Add to Books

[Oran Petersen]

I teach book/composite functionality, use and operations on a regular basis. I show my students the "Add to Books" feature in the menu, and then tell them to forget it. The sort issue goes back to the beginning of books in FrameMaker in Windows. 

What I teach is: 
- Create the book, or open an existing book in which you wish to add files. 
- Navigate in WINDOWS to the folder that holds the files. 
- Sort the files in Windows in the sort order you wish in the book (as close as possible) 
- Select the files in the Windows folder, using the shift key for a contiguous selection and Ctrl-click for a non-contiguous selection as desired. 
- With your mouse cursor on the top file of the selection (important) drag-select the files to the desired position in the book and release. 

The files will add to the book at the chosen position in the same sort order as in the Windows folder. Fast, easy and works every time. 

This saves us hours of time, as we create many books on a regular basis. 

If you do not grab the top file, they sort from the grabbed file down and then from the top file down to the grabbed one. Not what you want most likely. 
Oran Petersen