Hi, Karyn: At 1:31 PM -0800 3/20/06, Karyn Hunt wrote: >After trying several suggestions from the wonderful folks on this >list, I finally noticed something: The "apply master pages" checkbox >wasn't checked in the "update book" dialogue. So that appears to >have been the problem. > >Geez Louize, it took 1.5 hours to figure that out. What a waste of >an hour and a half. But a learning experience nonetheless. I won't >let that one slip by again. (The lessons learned hardest are always >the lessons learned best, huh?)
The lesson isn't that Apply Master Pages was unchecked, even if it seems to solve the problem in this document set. The reason is that Apply Master Pages needs to be set up in the document set. If it isn't set up, or is set up incorrectly or incompletely, it won't apply the master page that apparently was required to make your file act as expected. The cause of the misbehaving tabs and tab stops is that the master page for the generated file wasn't the correct one. It could be applied manually with Format > Page Layout > Master Page Usage. IMO, the real lesson is that it's a process documentation issue. There should be a style guide, document procedure, or check list that indicates that the generated file body pages need particular master pages, and that Apply Master Pages needs to be enabled for this document set, to assure that book updates work correctly without additional author effort. 1.5 hours spent on this lesson is worthwhile; it should pay back with future savings. -- Regards, Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices
