Straight-through numbering in FM book

[Matt Sullivan]

To keep your figure and table numbering from restarting, select the files in your book, right-click and go to Numbering. From the Paragraph tab, set to Continue from Previous Chapter


-Matt

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On Mar 13, 2013, at 2:51 PM, Nancy Allison <maker at verizon.net> wrote:

> Hi, all.
> 
> I've switched from chapter numbering to straight-through numbering in a FrameMaker document. I'm using FM 10 in a Win 7 environment.
> 
> Dropping the <Chapnum> from the page number setup on the master pages was the easy part. Here is what I haven't been able to do:
> 
> --Renumber figures and tables so they autonumber consecutively through multiple chapter files. They restart at 1 with each chapter. Even the FrameMaker-supplied Book template has this problem!
> 
> --Keep my cross-reference formats from breaking. Specifically, the hyperlink breaks. See "Figure 3-1" where "Figure 3-1" is a hyperlink becomes See "<Hyperlink> Figure 3-1." Why does changing the autonumber format affect the cross-reference?
> 
> 
> Please feel free to explain all this in detail, but also, please feel especially free to email me the autonumbering sequences that work for you for figures and tables!
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> It's been years since FM has driven me this crazy . . . .
> 
> --Nancy
> 
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