Is a Book file for separate books a good idea?

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November 15, 2025
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I have a 7 book series that all are identical in styles and have quite complicated TOC's and Styles

Is a book file an option to maintain and keep consistent all the styles, better than just updating one file and loading the style to the others (I don't know how anything about Book files)

I still need seperate cover pages/TOC's/page numbers etc. for all 7 seperate books, they are to be printed as completely seperate books.

Thanks in advance for your time & patience

Dave Creamer of IDEAS

Community Expert

If the documents are to be printed as separate books, it doesn't make sense to use a book file. The book file is mainly to link separate documents into one large "document".

You can still sync settings by using the "Load" settings. Shown below are the paragraph/character styles, parent pages, and TOC styles. NOTE: style/settings MUST have the same name (but that's true with a book file too).

IF you do want a book to sync settings, make SURE you disable auto numbering and insert blank pages BEFORE inserting any files. My settings do depend on each file starting on an odd (right/recto) page.