At 11:15 AM 5/30/2008, Harold Winberg wrote: >We have a book that is mix of structure and non-structure (Don't ask >why). We want to generate an index but the mix gives us a problem >generating. I get a message that it can't open x file because it is >structure and then fails to generate.
Harold, Bill Swallow is quite correct that you will see this message if you are using the original user interface and that you can avoid it by switching to the structured user interface. Don Rinderknecht is also correct that you can avoid the message by opening all the files before updating the book. One last variation: you can use Special > Remove Structure from Flow to do exactly what the command says. If you choose to do so, you might want to unstructure only copies of the original files so that any further editing can take advantage of the many benefits of structured authoring. --Lynne Lynne A. Price Text Structure Consulting, Inc. Specializing in structured FrameMaker consulting, application development, and training lprice at txstruct.com http://www.txstruct.com voice/fax: (510) 583-1505 cell phone: (510) 421-2284