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R__VanDyke
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July 13, 2009
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Separate table title autonumbering for two named table styles?

  • July 13, 2009
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I believe this very same question whizzed by a few weeks ago but I'm having no luck searching for it.

I have two named table styles.  I want the autonumbering for the table titles to be separate.  More specifically, one will autonumber as "Table t", while the other will autonumber as "Example e".

I have redefined the autonumbering counter for the second of the two TableTitle para style, and if I apply that style while in that table's title, I get the new autonumbering.  But I can't transmit (a) selectively update the Table Title style to this format to other tables in the chapter.  By extension, I can't copy the  wonderful new table format to other chapters in the book.

I next tried creating a new para style "ExampleTitle", then in the Table Designer trying Update All.  Nope, other tables of type example do not receive the new title style.

This is fully-patched FM8.  The document is structured but I don't (want to) care about that -- I simply need to get the two different named table styles
to autonumber sequentially.


This is probably pretty easy once I learn the "trick"...(?)

Cheers & thanks,

Riley

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    Arnis Gubins
    Arnis Gubins
    Inspiring
    July 14, 2009

    Riley,

    When you did the update in the Table Designer for your new format with the different table title, did you also try to use the Commands > Global Update Options in the Table designer?

    You need to use the Global Update Options to ensure that "All Properties" is selected, as well as ensuring that the correct format is being updated (All Tagged: xxxxx).

    I can get two separate table titles with two different series labels to insert properly and auto-increment as expected when following this update procedure.

    R
    R__VanDykeAuthor
    Known Participant
    July 14, 2009

    Arnis:

    Thanks.  For some reason I couldn't get my table to update, so I went through and manually create a second table title paragraph style, then manually applied that.  (I also created a second x-ref format so that I could x-ref to "Example n:" without including the colon in the x-ref, but that's another story...)

    So for now I've worked around the problem.  After I get this document out I'll revisit the issue.  (Why do I have a vague recollection that there's a known idiosyncracy where FM6+ table styles don't update properly...?)

    Cheers & thanks 'gain,

    Riley

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