8.5

Any user who opens a book can add, reorder, and delete chapters. The user can also add
sections to chapters to override the sequential page numbering or synchronize chapters.
You may want to assign these tasks to one user (such as the editor) and ask other users to
simply open and close chapters through the palette.
If you open a chapter outside of its associated QuarkXPress book (meaning that you didn't
use the Book palette to open it), the page numbers may temporarily change. If the chapter
contains book chapter starts, which automatically update page numbers across chapters,
then the chapter will begin on page number 1 while you are editing outside the book.
When you reopen the chapter using the Book palette, the page numbers will automatically
update. If the chapter contains regular section starts, then the page numbers will not be
affected when editing outside the book.
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:
1
Make sure all the chapters in the book have a status of Available. If a chapter is unavailable,
its specifications will not be synchronized.
2
Select the chapters you want to synchronize. To select a range of chapters, click 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.
3
Click the Synchronize Book button in the Book palette. The Synchronize Selected
Chapters dialog box displays.
4
Click the Style Sheets, Colors, H&Js, Lists, or Dashes & Stripes tab to choose from a list
of those specifications. The Available list displays all the appropriate specifications. Select
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