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I have 4 chapters. I set the second chapter to be the one with the main styles. The menus showed me this had been set ok. I chose to synchronise styles: In the popup window I deselected everything except styles, so only the styles would synchronise. I clicked to do it. Nothing appeared to happen. Wasn't sure if my click was successful. Clicked again. Still nothing appeared to happen. Checking, I discovered: no styles synchronised at all. No change to styles in other chapters at all. But, the master pages copied over, duplicating the existing masters. Since I clicked twice, I ended up with two complete sets of master pages that I had to delete, one master at a time from the other chapters, since the masters were already the same and complete and required no syncing. -- I tried having chapter 3 selected, and choosing to synchronise. More duplicate master pages added, but no styles were added. I tried having chapter 1 as the master chapter for styles. Getting pretty sick of deleting all the extra masters by this time so when duplicating masters was all that happened I gave up. Summary: I can't use synchronise to get my styles aligned between chapters in a book. I can't stop masters duplicating, even when the check box for masters is unticked in the synchronise dialog: they copy every time and every one of them, even when they are the same as what is already there, or the same as what it copied 2 seconds ago. Masters duplicate what is already there, they dont just add new/different masters. You can't tell, when you click to action the sync, that anything has happened. (Well, leave your master page panel visible and you might see all the extra masters cluttering things up.) MacOSX 12.6 (Monterey). Publisher v2.0