Use File > Import Formats > Variables (and maybe page layouts, depending on
how your stuff is set up)
Source file should be one that is reading correctly; targets should be the
other files in the book.
Art Campbell
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DoD 358
On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 2:02 PM Doug <dbailey4...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have multiple books sharing a set of chapters using the text-inset
> functionality. This set of shared FM files exist in their own folder,
> separate from the book files. All of the FMs, shared or not, populate
> their footers using a variable that contains the book's name.
>
> I'm feeling a bit brain-dead today so I can't recall the proper way that
> the variable in the footer gets updated the next time I use that common set
> with a different book.
>
> I've already clicked Update Book but that didn't change the footer variable
> in the text insets. I know I can manually import variables from the book
> into the text insets, but that means I'd have to do that every time I
> change books.
>
> Am I forgetting the proper way to do it, or is that it?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Doug
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