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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.
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If you make changes that affect the specifications in a book, you will need to
synchronize the chapters again.
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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 (read-only).