Book Chapters not renumbering

Pamela,

I think you are misunderstanding something. You need to reread the posts by Art and me.

1. Open one of your documents that begins a chapter. Put the insertion point in the chapter title, where the chapter number is. Then open the paragraph designer and look at the autonumbering format. It needs to contains the building block <$chapnum>. If not, then your EDD and/or template is not creating the correct format for autonumbering to work.

2. Then in the book file, right-click each document file and select Numbering.

3. In the Numbering dialog box, click the Chapter tab and select Continue Numbering from Previous File in Book.

4. IF the chapter 1 file is not the first chapter in the book, then right-click the chapter 1 file and select Numbering. In the Chapter tab, select Chapter # and enter 1 in the text box.

5. Then update the book file. The numbering should be correct.

Chapter numbering is no different in structured files than it is in unstructured files.

Good luck,
Van

The autonumbering is actually set the EDD. I've never had a problem with the numbering before. However this is the first time I've tried to update a converted unstructured document. That's why I was wondering if that might have been the problem.

I used the conversion tables, then I imported my structured EDD files and everything looked fine until I went to get them renumbered....

Like I said in my original post...I tried it both ways...setting the numbering in the book file, and when that didn't work I tried setting it in the document files...that didn't work either...no matter what I do, it seems they are just stubborn and won't change. arrrghh!

I know I've had some problems with them renumbering before, but it was always a matter of the order of the steps of saving the files in between...but I had made notes the last time I had a problem and I've always done it the same since...and never had a problem again until now.

Any other ideas on what to look at that might be the problem?

Thanks!

In addition to making sure that the paragraph tag that displays the number uses <$chapnum>, you need to set the Chapter Numbering in the book file, not the component Document.

In the book file, highlight the chapters, right-click, then Numbering > Chapter > Increment...

Save the book and all files, and update.

A

Pamela,

There is no bug/problem with numbering in files converted from unstructured to structure. I do it all the time.

Make sure the autonumbering format for the chapter title is correct, that is, make sure it is using the <$chapnum> building block. If the unstructured files are very old, they may be using another numbering system, one designed before the $chapnum building block became available.

Good luck,
Van