[Framers] Importing table formats into chapters in a book

[Peter Gold]

Umm... Save and close all files, close and restart FM, maybe?

On Mon, Sep 13, 2021, 5:26 PM <tammyvb at spectrumwritingllc.com> wrote:

> In Chapter 1 in my book, I have established the 8 different table formats
> that I need to properly document all the content in the book. I have every
> paragraph tag set up that I need, every graphic on my reference page, every
> table format defined by name, etc. and I have confirmed ad nauseum that
> when
> I click on a location on a page where I want a table to be inserted, and
> then click Table > Insert Table and then select the Table Format that I
> want
> and click Insert, I get the expected table in Chapter 1.
>
>
>
> So, I  then did the following: selected all the chapters in the book that
> which I want to import the tables (I did not select Chapter 1), and then
> using Rick's awesome Import Formats Special tool, I select Paragraph
> Formats, Reference Pages, and Table Formats and click Import, and select
> Chapter 1 as the Import From File option but.. . . no matter how many times
> I do this, I cannot get my table formats to be imported properly. In a
> chapter into which I have supposedly imported these table formats, I click
> Table > Insert Table and then select the Table Format that I want insert
> and
> all I get is Frame's generic table (a Format A or Format B) no matter what
> table format I have selected. I have confirmed that the necessary paragraph
> tags and reference pages have been imported into all the chapters, and the
> yes, the table names are showing up in the Insert Table dialog box, but for
> the life of me, I can't get them to be inserted as expected.
>
>
>
> I give. . . . I have way too many chapters to manually set up these 8
> different formats individually (and yea, I know how to do that, but it
> shouldn't be necessary). . . what am I doing wrong? What step am I missing?
>
>
>
> TIA,
>
>
>
> TVB
>
>
>
> Tammy Van Boening
>
> Tammy dot vanboening at spectrumwritingllc dot com
>
> www.spectrumwritingllc.com
>
>
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