Stuart, Thanks, done that..set page numbering in the book window and in the file. Using FM 10 years...deep-level nerd almost 40 years. I have tried every trick I know. I saved the file as .mif and looked. DStartPage is set to 1. ContPageNum is No.
When I copy and paste the contents of the file into a new, clean template, the offending behavior is copied as well. When I add a blank page to the beginning of the offending file, the TOC page numbers for that file increment by 1. It's as if there were 6 "invisible" pages at the start of the offending file...leastwise, that's the behavior...Kelly. -----Original Message----- From: Stuart Rogers [mailto:srog...@phoenix-geophysics.com] Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 9:59 AM To: Kelly McDaniel Cc: framers at FrameUsers.com Subject: Re: Numbering Kelly McDaniel wrote: > Folks, > > I have a chapter in a book that starts with page 1 but the TOC shows the > first page as page 7. (The link goes to page 1 content. It's just that > the TOC is not numbering the pages the way I tell it to number them.) > > I have reset Page Numbering several times, including changing it on the > offending chapter to Roman, to Continue Numbering From Previous and > back. No joy. > > I moved the offending chapter to another order in the book, below a > chapter with 28 pages (Thinking that the TOC might read page 1 as page > 35... 7 + 28=35). No joy. > > I imported Reference pages and Master pages from known good files. No > joy. > > I did the same with the TOC. No joy. > > As a workaround, I numbered the chapter to begin with -5 (negative five) > and it worked. The chapter begins with page 1, and the TOC reflects page > 1. > > > I'm stumped. Any ideas?...thanks, Kelly. Kelly, I don't know how you are "telling the TOC" to number pages -- it has no role in that process. In individual files, you set the numbering properties in the file. When dealing with a book however, you must set the numbering properties for the files from within the book window. Those settings will override whatever is set in the files themselves. (Unless, in the book window, you set the numbering to Read from File, which sounds like the culprit here.) 1. In the book window, select the first chapter and set Format > Document > Numbering to start at 1. 2. Select all the following chapters and set them to Continue Numbering from Previous Page in Book. 3. Save the book file and then update the book, generating your TOC. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "It is not enough that I succeed. Others must fail." -- Oscar Wilde
