Why is an entire page of table rows duplicating in FrameMaker 10?

[Guest]

I have a long table in one of my chapters in FrameMaker 10. The table is seven pages long, but an entire page worth of table rows is duplicated, so the table really only should be six pages long. The first four pages look like this:

Page 1: Rows 1-7

Page 2: Rows 8-16

Page 3: Rows 8-16

Page 4: Rows 17-28

The headers and footers are completely unaffected. All of the index markers in the table rows are also duplicated, so all of the index markers on Page 3 are also showing up in the IX file. I’ve combed through the file for unresolved cross-references, but I can’t find any. Also, if I insert a blank row on Page 2, the set of rows is no longer duplicated. If I highlight the entire table, Page 2 does not appear to be highlighted. I can’t select or edit anything on Page 2.

I’m absolutely mystified about why this is happening. Any insight on what is causing this set of phantom rows to appear?

[Art_Campbell1 · Accepted solution]

A couple ideas to play with:

• Have you MIF-washed the file to clean up odd codes that may have been imported?
• Have you checked the duplicating rows to verify that they're set as body and not header?

[Guest]

Thanks for the help, Art! I MIF-washed the file, and that seems to have solved the problem for now!

(Also, I had to find out what MIF-washing was first...so if anyone comes across this thread and doesn't know what it is: Save an FM file as an MIF. Then save the MIF as a FM file again, overwriting your original FM file.)

[Winfried Reng]

Hi,

I noticed this problem several times in the past years. MIF-washing always helped, but sometimes the table rows duplicated again.

With FrameMaker 10 I did not notice this bug yet.

Best regards

Winfried

[Van Kurtz]

I have had this problem, but in structured FrameMaker. My solution was to reimport the element definitions, but I do not know what the comparable action would be for an unstructured document.

Van