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> Word allows for Section Breaks, Page Breaks, and also has the AutoCorrect
> and AutoText Features.
A lot of people moving from Word to Frame have trouble with the concept of
section breaks. In Word, you can put a whole book in a single file -- cover,
copyright, TOC, chapters, appendices, and index. Section breaks allow you to
apply page formats and restart numbering as needed within the file. Pretty
handy for small books.
When Word users try to accomplish the same thing in Frame using page breaks,
they get into a world of trouble. The opening page style keeps sliding
around to other pages, they can't get the numbering to work, the TOC is in
an external file. It's all a big mess.
The answer, for those of you who recognize yourself here, is to put each
piece of the book (cover, copyright, TOC, each chapter, each app, etc.) into
a separate file and use Frame books to manage page styles and numbering.
(Seems obvious, I know, but I've repaired enough projects over the years to
think that the point bears mentioning.)
Katie
(who believes that Frame training is money well spent)
(and who hasn't worked with Frame in three years, so maybe everything I've
said here is no longer true)
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