Richard, Thanks for your reply. I think I do understand the role of master pages and I wasn't trying to connect a master page frame to a body page frame.
As you suspected, I had a chapter title text frame on the body page instead of the master page. That's why Tori's suggestion worked...I changed the order in which FM scans these flows. The better method is to do what you suggested...have the chapter title text frame on the master page as part of flow A and have it connected to the main text frame. I will do this from this point forward. Due to time constraints, I was using Tori's quick fix for now, but I'll use the better option from now on. Again, many thanks for helping me out. Sorry if I wasn't clear in my email. Mary -----Original Message----- From: Combs, Richard [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 1:16 PM To: 'Mary Saifuku' Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Generated TOC entries appear in wrong chapter Mary Saifuku wrote: > Thanks, Jeremy, for shedding light on this. In my files, the chapter title > is in a text frame on the first page, not on the First master page. > > Per Tori's suggestion, I modified my chapter template by selecting the text > frame with the title, right-clicking, and choosing Send to Back. This > solves > the problem. > > Is there an advantage to putting the text frame on the First master page > and > connecting the frame with the title to the body text frame? I'm afraid you've misunderstood Jeremy (and maybe the nature/role of master pages?). You can't connect a master page frame to a body page frame. Master pages are the _templates_ from which your body pages are created. The first page of your chapter apparently contains two disconnected text flows. Using Tori's suggestion, you've changed the order in which FM scans those flows. Jeremy was suggesting a more fundamental solution: don't use two separate flows. Connect the text frames so that pressing Enter at the end of the chapter title creates a new paragraph in the main ("body text") frame below it. The help and manual contain information about text flows and connecting/disconnecting them. But probably the simplest way to do this in your situation is to recreate the main ("body text") frame on the First master page. First, delete the main ("body text") frame. Next, make sure the text frame for the chapter title has Autoconnect turned on and its flow tag is A. Then, recreate the main text frame. In the Add New Text Frame dialog, select Template for Body Page Text Frame and set Flow Tag to A. FM informs you that the new text frame has been connected to the end of flow A. Now, pages that use the First master page will have only one text flow instead of two. NOTE: This assumes that you didn't just add the chapter title text frame to the body page instead of the master page. If you did that, you'll have to reapply the First master page to fix it. HTH! Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 ------ rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-903-6372 ------
