<div dir="ltr">I knew you could put books inside of books, but I haven't tried importing variables into a book file that contains other book files. I wasn't sure if Frame would open the document files as well as the book files. <br>
<div><br>My concern with doing that sort of thing was that Edwin said there were hundreds of files to be updated. Opening that many either all at once or one by one, as Frame does when the files aren't already open, could tie up even the most robust system for a long time.<br>
<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Matt Sullivan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matt@mattrsullivan.com" target="_blank">matt@mattrsullivan.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">And I believe if you create a book which contains each of the needed books, you can complete the task with one import.<br>
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</div><div class="im"><br><div><div>On Apr 19, 2013, at 6:17 AM, Lin Sims <<a href="mailto:ljsims.ml@gmail.com" target="_blank">ljsims.ml@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none">Yes, Edwin will have to open each book to do this, but it's still faster than editing one file in each book and importing from there.<span> </span></span></blockquote>
</div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Lin Sims
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