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Make sure all the chapters in the book have a status of Available. If a chapter 1
is unavailable, its specifications will not be synchronized.
Select the chapters you want to synchronize. To select a range of chapters, 2
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.
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 6
chapter, 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.
Specifications in other chapters that are not defined in the master chapter ●
remain untouched.
If you make changes that affect the specifications in a book, you will need to 
synchronize the chapters again.
You can use synchronization to make global changes to any of the 
specifications in a book. For example, if you decide to change a spot color
used throughout a book, change the color’s definition in the master chapter;
then click the Synchronize Book button .
Printing chapters
The Book palette provides a quick method for printing multiple chapters with the
same settings. You can print an entire book or just selected chapters from the
Book palette. To print chapters in an open book:
Make sure the chapters you want to print have a status of Available or Open. 1
You cannot print chapters that are listed as Missing or are currently in use by
other users.