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Subject:Re: Updating Existing TOC in Frame From:John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"Kwiatkowski Richard \(ST-VS/DOC-La\)" <Richard -dot- Kwiatkowski -at- us -dot- bosch -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 24 May 2006 07:24:54 -0700 (PDT)
Don't copy your old TOC file into the new book and don't rename
anything. Instead, just generate a new TOC, then open up the old TOC
and copy the formats from the old TOC to the new TOC.
--- "Kwiatkowski Richard (ST-VS/DOC-La)"
<Richard -dot- Kwiatkowski -at- us -dot- bosch -dot- com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am having a problem with FrameMaker updating and existing TOC. I
> copy my template TOC into the new directory, which contains the
> book file and the chapter files. I add the TOC into the book, then
> change the name of the TOC to match that of the book file (for
> instance, if the name of the book is installationbook, I change the
> name of the TOC to installationbookTOC.fm) as stated in the
> Complete Reference for FrameMaker 7. When I update the book,
> however, Frame does not update the TOC.
>
> I am not sure if I am doing something wrong or if I missed
> something in the reference?
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
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