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 unavailable, its specifications will not be synchronized.
- 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.
- Click the Synchronize Book button in the Book palette. The Synchronize Selected Chapters dialog box displays.
- 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 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 dialog box, click the Synch All button.
- Click OK. Each chapter in the book is opened, compared to the master 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.
Note: If you make changes that affect the specifications in a book, you will need to synchronize the chapters again.
Parent topic: Synchronizing chapters