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Synchronizing chapters
To ensure that all the style sheets, colors, hyphenation and justification
specifications, lists, and dashes and stripes used in book chapters are the same, you
can synchronize these specifications to match those in a master chapter. By default,
the first chapter in the book is the master chapter, but you can change the master
chapter at any time.
When you synchronize chapters, all the specifications in each chapter are compared
to the master chapter and modified as necessary. After you synchronize chapters,
each chapter in the book will have the same style sheets, colors, hyphenation and
justification specifications, lists, and dashes and stripes as the master chapter.
Specifying the master chapter
By default, the first chapter you add to a book is the master chapter. The master
chapter is indicated by an M to the left of the chapter name in the Book palette. To
change the master chapter, click to select the new master chapter. Then click the
blank area to the left of the chapter name; the master chapter icon M moves to the
new chapter.
Synchronizing specifications
Before you synchronize the specifications in a book, first make sure that the style
sheets, colors, hyphenation and justification specifications, lists, and dashes and
stripes in the current master chapter are defined correctly. Then:
Make sure all the chapters in the book have a status of Available. If a chapter is 1.
unavailable, its specifications will not be synchronized.
Select the chapters you want to synchronize. To select a range of chapters, click 2.
the first chapter and press Shift while you click the last chapter in the range. To
select nonconsecutive chapters, press Command/Ctrl while you click the
chapters.
Click the Synchronize Book button in the Book palette. The Synchronize 3.
Selected Chapters dialog box displays.
Click the Style Sheets, Colors, H&Js, Lists, or Dashes & Stripes tab to choose 4.
from a list of those specifications. The Available list displays all the appropriate
specifications. Select the specifications you want to synchronize and double-
click them, or click the arrow to move them to the Include column.
To synchronize all the specifications in the Synchronize Selected Chapters 5.
dialog box, click the Synch All button.
Click OK. Each chapter in the book is opened, compared to the master chapter, 6.
modified as necessary, and saved. When you synchronize chapters, they are
modified as follows:
Specifications with the same name are compared; chapter specifications are •
edited as necessary to match specifications in the master chapter.
Specifications in the master chapter that are missing from other chapters are •
added to those chapters.
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