Referencing problem 1

[Darzza]

Hello again,

I have imported a PM document into ID. The document has a contents page and contains a lot different processes that each have a title (which is a sub section on the contents page). For example the first process in section 9 will have a title of 9.1 both on the contents page and above the process. Is it possible to have an automatic process that will update the contents page and all the titles of the processes so that they still read in sequence. for example, if I delete process 9.7, can that be reflected throughout the rest of the document???? i.e process 9.8 becomes 9.7 and so on.

This leads me to another question of a similar nature. Within our processes/story we reference different pictures and table - is it possible to do the same? For example, I may state as part of a process to view figure 9a - If I was to delete figure 9a or change it to 9z could this automatically be reflected in the document in all the other areas where it says to view the particular figure??

Hope that this makes some sense. And thanks once again for all the help received!





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[Darzza]

Hello again,

I forgot to ask if the same problem could be fixed in FrameMaker and QuarkXpress Passport??? As essentially I am trying to choose between the three products, to find one that will best help to improve our current method of document creation.

I think maybe I should also mention, that the intention is o have a number of different documents that will be imported into a book wen we are ready to send the whole manual out. (I would want a content page on the final document that would reflect all of the other content pages at the beginning of the other sections)

Hope that explains a bit more as to the direction I'm thinking of going down. Thanks once again.


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[Darzza]

Sorry,

I have just seen a thread (by jmgalvin) asking people to post questions to include the OS in use and the spec of the product.

1) Windows XP, Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz
2) Would intend on buying the most suitable/latest product - cost not really an issue.

Thanks again!






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[jmgalvin]

Question1: Make changes to the document, not TOC - assuming you've created proper paragraph styles for TOC to pick upand defined it in TOC styles - and go to Layout menu/Update TOC. Since a pdf will be genreated (either for web serving or for printing, it's handy to tell ID to make PDF bookmarks when you create a TOC style by clickng on the Options button in TOC new style window.

On books, so lang as you've been careful enough to set the exact same paragraph/toc styles for each file and synchronized the book, toc is similat to documant toc.

Question 2: Changing ref to different image. Edit menu/Find Change - just like any word processor.