10 Replies Latest reply: May 26, 2011 9:27 PM by John Hawkinson RSS

    Illustration numbers using "chapter #" text variable

    E Diane King Community Member

      I have a curriculum that I'm updating that has illustration numbers throughout 21 lessons. The lessons are separate files that come from three separate books and are being rearranged into a new book. The illustration numbers are in a hypenated format where the first number is the lesson number and the second number counts up from 00 restarting with each lesson.  I was hoping to replace the lesson number with the chapter # variable so that when I rearrange the lessons, the illustrations will automatically renumber themselves. However, I can't seem to do a find and replace for the number and replace it with the variable. As far as I can tell, I can only go through and find each number and manually insert the variable. The variables are not available for find and change, and if I try putting it on the clipboard and replacing with the clipboard contents, I get the page number rather than the chapter #.  I'm using CS3, but I think CS4 may have the same short coming.

       

      Any ideas how to do this? It seems to me to defeat the purpose of the variable if you can't do a quick find and change to put it where it can be useful. At this point, it would be faster to just do a find and change and put each lesson number in manually, even though the numbers will not automatically update if the lesson number changes. Is there something I'm missing?