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- From: dmeyer@tiac.net (David Meyer)
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- Subject: Re: Final Writer problems
- Date: 28 Jan 1996 02:38:25 GMT
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- Jon-Inge Paulsen (paulsen@afrodite.fi.uib.no) wrote:
- : Hello!
- :
- : I am using Final Writer for making some manuals. Now I have
- : come into severe problems. I have used the suggestion from
- : Softwood to make each chapter of my manual a section. BUT,
- : what do I do if I want to change the order of the sections?
- :
- : To be precise. What I originally wrote as Chapter 1, has
- : been changed to Chapter 2 after both of them was finished.
- : Is there a way to swap the sections??? If there isn't, I
- : guess I have a BIG problem. The Table of contents, illustrations
- : and so on get all wrong...
- :
- I just ran through the manual, which I'm sure you have also done,
- and found no help there. Thus we have to resort to strangeness.
- #1) Brute-Force Cut 'n Paste
- #2) Out-of-Sequence Rename
-
- OK, #1 is no fun! But it _can_ be done. Create your new section and cut a
- page from the original section then paste it in the new one. Potentially
- a lot of work and an equally great opportunity to screw up. Make a copy
- first.
- #2 is a bit slimy, but who cares? Rename the two sections in-place. All
- done. Unless, of course, the entire work features a single, continuous
- page numbering sequence. Ooops, back to cut&paste. But it sure saves work
- and reduces the chance of error is each section is individually
- sequenced. (Chap2.23 leads to Chap3.1, for example) Only those with
- access to your file know the truth.
-
- Maybe Woody & co. can work on an elegant solution?
-