I miffed all my files, and saved and then opened and resaved as FM, and then closed and restarted FM and did the import and voila - I kid you not, , , success. I am not gonna' even try to understand this one at this point, but yea, I have had these chapters and this book open for a VERY long time w/out closing and restarting FM, so . . . Whatever it takes. Tammy Van Boening Tammy dot vanboening at spectrumwritingllc dot com www.spectrumwritingllc.com -----Original Message----- From: Framers On Behalf Of Peter Gold Sent: Monday, September 13, 2021 4:36 PM To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. Subject: Re: [Framers] Importing table formats into chapters in a book Umm... Save and close all files, close and restart FM, maybe? On Mon, Sep 13, 2021, 5:26 PM wrote: > In Chapter 1 in my book, I have established the 8 different table > formats that I need to properly document all the content in the book. > I have every paragraph tag set up that I need, every graphic on my > reference page, every table format defined by name, etc. and I have > confirmed ad nauseum that when I click on a location on a page where I > want a table to be inserted, and then click Table > Insert Table and > then select the Table Format that I want and click Insert, I get the > expected table in Chapter 1. > > > > So, I then did the following: selected all the chapters in the book > that which I want to import the tables (I did not select Chapter 1), > and then using Rick's awesome Import Formats Special tool, I select > Paragraph Formats, Reference Pages, and Table Formats and click > Import, and select Chapter 1 as the Import From File option but.. . . > no matter how many times I do this, I cannot get my table formats to > be imported properly. In a chapter into which I have supposedly > imported these table formats, I click Table > Insert Table and then > select the Table Format that I want insert and all I get is Frame's > generic table (a Format A or Format B) no matter what table format I > have selected. I have confirmed that the necessary paragraph tags and > reference pages have been imported into all the chapters, and the yes, > the table names are showing up in the Insert Table dialog box, but for > the life of me, I can't get them to be inserted as expected. > > > > I give. . . . I have way too many chapters to manually set up these 8 > different formats individually (and yea, I know how to do that, but it > shouldn't be necessary). . . what am I doing wrong? What step am I missing? > > > > TIA, > > > > TVB > > > > Tammy Van Boening > > Tammy dot vanboening at spectrumwritingllc dot com > > www.spectrumwritingllc.com > > > > > _____ > > > < > https://home.mcafee.com/utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign= > sig-e > > mail&utm_content=emailclient?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_camp > aign=s > ig-email&utm_content=emailclient > > > Scanned by McAfee > < > https://home.mcafee.com/utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign= > sig-e > > mail&utm_content=emailclient?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_camp > aign=s > ig-email&utm_content=emailclient > =sig-email&utm_content=emailclient?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&ut > m_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient>> > and confirmed virus-free. > _______________________________________________ > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > Send messages to [email protected] Visit the list's > homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at > http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ > Subscribe and unsubscribe at > http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com > Send administrative questions to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to [email protected] Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to [email protected] Scanned by McAfee and confirmed virus-free. Find out more here: https://bit.ly/2zCJMrO
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