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OK, Donna's right...to a point.
:-)
But I'll go one step further and say that you need to make
sure that ALL conditions in use in your documents are accounted for in the
master Import From file.
If you have
conditions that are not in that file, it may be because they are legacy
conditions that either need to be deleted or renamed to the new
convention. You could have new conditions that were created on
the fly and didn't follow the set standard.
Either way, the conditions need to exist in a master file
where everyone can be aware of them.
-Carla From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jones, Donna Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 12:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [TCP] Conditional Text - general comments I hate to correct Carla
in public, but this is a big one if you’re working with conditional text.
(Sorry, Carla!) It’s not always the
best practice to use an “import from” file to reset the show/hide settings of
conditional text in a book. All that does change the show/hide features for the
conditions that are contained in the import from file. It does absolutely
nothing to the conditions that are not in the import from file (say someone
added new ones…), so you could wind up having text showing when it shouldn’t be.
Always set conditional text in your books at the book level by selecting all
files in the book and then choosing View > Show/Hide Conditional Text. That
will get you the same results 100% of the time where the import from file may
not. The import from file is
good for importing conditions that don’t already exist in your
files. Donna
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