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Hi, I need help with regards to the figure numbering in FrameMaker. I have preexisting styles for figures and I started using the figure style on the first document, but when I use the same figure style in the proceeding documents, the number restarts. Is there a way I can set the figure number to continue from the previous document in the book? Thank you.
Hi Dana:
Yes. It's fine if they start over in each document while you are still authoring/formatting the content.
But once they add them to a book, select the chapters in which you want the numbering to increment (click the first one, shift+click the last one) then right click > Numbering > Paragraph. Click Continue Numbering from Previous Paragraph in Book and update the book. (There are a lot of tabs along the top row in Numbering Options. Be sure to click Paragraph.)
This will continue
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Hi Dana:
Yes. It's fine if they start over in each document while you are still authoring/formatting the content.
But once they add them to a book, select the chapters in which you want the numbering to increment (click the first one, shift+click the last one) then right click > Numbering > Paragraph. Click Continue Numbering from Previous Paragraph in Book and update the book. (There are a lot of tabs along the top row in Numbering Options. Be sure to click Paragraph.)
This will continue all paragraph-level numbering. If you have other numbers that should not continue across files (lists, for example) they are told not to do this in the documents themselves.
~Baerb
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Hi, Barb.
Thank you for the suggestion. But I tried opening the next document that needs the continuous figure numbering, it's still restarts to 1 instead of 22 (please see screenshot for reference). How can I fix this? Thank you!
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Ok. Can you click in that paragraph, and share a screen shot of Paragraph Designer > Numbering so that we can see how it is set up?
~Barb
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Hi, Barb.
Here's the screenshot as requested.
I look forward to your response. Thank you!
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And your docs are part of a book file?
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Hi, Jeff.
As for your question, the answer is yes. This document is part of a book file.
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This is a good start!
The only question I have is why there are any spaces between the colon and the tab (the \t). But that's not the issue.
Next up:
Could you please share a screenshot that shows the highlighted files in your book window, and Numbering options with Paragraph tab selected? This should be a single screenshot so I can see exactly what we are working with.
~Barb
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Hi Barb!
Noted on your first comment. As for the second inquiry, here's a screenshot as requested.
It may not be that visible, but I highlighted all documents under the book and already set the paragraph section to "Continue Numbering from Previous Paragraph in Book" as instructed. Hope this helps.
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We will get there but, again, this looks good.
What is the last figure number in Overview. fm? Figure 21 using auto-numbers (and not numbered manually)?
And did you update your book?
~Barb
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Ohh my. I totally forgot about updating the book. After hitting the update book button, the changes were applied.
Thank you for the help!
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You did all the hard stuff beautifully! LOL
~Barb