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To be honest: I found the "Find in document" option after your post. Thank you. May request is then expanded to the index panel: the option to search in all chapters (documents) used in a book. Now I have to open each chapter / document and do the search for every topic. I work on on a book with scripts, some of them dating back to 2012. There are quite a lot terms I want to add to the index but I dont know in which script it was mentioned. So by now: open and find, find, find ... open and find, find, find ...

Hello, as an improvement of "find and replace" it would be great to have the option to search in a book, not only in the chapters (=separate files). I would like to create a glossary for the whole book and mark text passages in the index in the different chapters without having to search in each file separately. Some of my books have more than 15 or 20 chapters ... Thank you.

Thanks Mike, I hadn't realised that the topics are automatically synchronised in books. Thanks for the hint. I'll have a look right away. Cheers Stefan

Hi there, I am working on different afpub files, but they have similar content. There are always terms that I want to add to the index in different places in several files. An export function for the topics would be helpful so that I don't have to synchronise each file manually. Is there a way to export the list of topics and import it into another file? Or for books: to define a master similar to the textstyles, which distributes all topics to the chapters of all files in a book? Thank you for your feedback. Cheers Stefan

Thanks guys for your instant reply. It is really great to have this forum and exchange ... Sometimes too much automatisation isn't always the best way to do things. so my conclusions are: My idea with the prepared masters works fine when not used for entries in the ToC. And I have to type the chapters name again in the chapter title or put in the field manually. @MikeTO: I think it is less work as I mentioned now than working with two masters - tried it and it led me to the »solution« with the field »section name«. At least my assumption was confirmed.

Hi everyone, Maybe one of you can help me. I have a master page called "Chapter", in which a text frame is positioned on the left and right side. The field "Section Name" is inserted in both text frames. It is formatted with a text style "Chapter". The table of contents is created on the basis of this text style "Chapter". If I now start a new chapter in the text, I drag the master page "Chapter" onto the page, insert a new section with the chapter name from this page. This automatically names the chapter. Likewise, the field "Section Name" appears in the left header of all pages. The master page is therefore two-sided, as the page numbering in the header is then positioned correctly (on the outside of the page). If I make an explicit master for the beginning of the chapter on a left and a right page, I have to reformat each time pages are added. So far so good. Everything works fine, but: When I now create a table of contents, the chapters are listed on two pages each. My guess: the master page "Chapters" contains the text frames of both pages in the background layers. This means that the field "Section Name" is also present on the left and right. In fact, only the page that is to be displayed is visible. At the moment, I insert the "Section Name" field manually after the master page has been assigned. This means that the field is actually only included on the desired pages and is also displayed correctly in the table of contents. Is this a mistake or have I overlooked something? Thanks for the help. I added an afpub-file, which shows my problem- just in case ... example-ToC.afpub

Hi Chantal, I don't know if I understood correct, but: e.g. in Publisher you can use the "Fields" (Window - References - Fields) where you can fill up fields with your information.

Hello, Is there any feature, where I can write down some notes to my document? These notes should not be shown somewhere in the printed document. I want to note things like: - special settings - thoughts about the design - design and layout instructions - etc. I thought of something like properties in a word document. Maybe there is a place where I can do it but I couldn't find it ... Thanks for your help. Regards S.