To open the Edit Book Dialog, click on the Publish menu. This opens the Books Dialog which displays a list of all the books in the current project, if there are any. On this dialog box, books can be created, edited, cloned, viewed or deleted. Select a book and click to open the Edit Book Dialog. Alternatively, click to create a new book. Once you have provided a name for the book, the Edit Book Dialog will be opened to allow you to add items to the book.
The Edit Book Dialog can also be accessed by clicking in the panel on the right side of the Book Window, when
viewing a book in the Book Window.
The Edit Book Dialog is used to create and edit books. Books can have a title page, a table-of-contents, an index, and free text (e.g. for a preface, acknowledgements, a copyright statement, or whatever you wish) - plus whatever content you wish. The contents of the book - the chapters - will usually consist of reports that you choose to add, and/or charts and diagrams. If you wish you can add free text too, as either a chapter, or as additional text added to a chapter.
See How to Add Content to a Book or Booklet for tips on using the Edit Book Dialog to add content to a book.
Tip: You never have to close the Edit Book dialog. It is similar to the Property Box, and certain other Family Historian dialogs, in that you make any changes you like to other windows, even when the Edit Book dialog is open. The Books dialog, which displays a list of books in the current project, works the same way.
Tip: Editing a book can be much slower if the book is currently being displayed in the Book Window. If the Book Window is open and performance is slow, close it.
| Available Items |
List items that can be added to the current books. |
|---|---|
| Current Book Items |
Lists all items that have been added to the current book. |
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To change the contents of the Title Page, or any chart or
diagram, or any free text item, select the item and click the Edit
button. The Edit button will be greyed if you select other
item types. |
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The Settings button allows you to change the settings for the
currently selected item. Every item has settings, so this
button will be always be available when you select an item.
The actual settings vary between items. Reports, for
example, will typically have many settings on many different
tabs. All items have an 'item' tab which allows you to
specify basic settings, common to every item. Some settings - such as fonts, layout, footers and headers - are set using the button - see below. |
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Clicking the Go To Page button is a quick way of viewing that
item in the Book Window. It will display the current book in
the Book Window, scrolled to view the currently selected item. |
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Delete the currently selected items from the book. This
button works if you have multiple items selected. |
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Move the currently selected items up one. This buttons
works if you have multiple items selected. Tip: A quick way of moving an item from the bottom
of a long list to the top, is simply to select all of the items
that you want to move it past, and click |
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Move the currently selected items down one. This buttons
works if you have multiple items selected. See also the
above tip. |
| View Book |
Closes the current dialog box and displays the book in the Book Window. |
| Book Settings |
Opens the Book Settings Dialog, which is used to specify Source
information, fonts, heading styles, headers, footers, layout,
privacy settings, and more. These settings apply not just to
one item, but to the book as a whole. |