Marxitos

I am building large documents using small documents with bookmarks used to define the relevant "chunks" of text and pictures, which I link to the large documents using the INCLUDETEXT field.
All the files share the same template and the same styles.
Everything works fine except for one thing: the text in the large documents "slips" down. That means that if I compare files side by side (one large file and the small file including the relevant bookmark) the text in the large file starts at the same position and slowly slips down. This is particularly problematic when pictures are included, and some of the text which was supposed to be in one page slips top the nex page (in the large file).

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

macropod

Hi Marxitos,

I suspect you've got paragraph marks separating your INCLUDETEXT fields. Delete them (ie make all the INCLUDETEXT fields part of the same paragraph in your target document) and everything should be OK.

Marxitos

Thanks for the tip, but it's not that.
If have one includetext "calling" a bookmark a few pages long, I have the same problem. The first line or two will be well located, and then the rest is being "displaced" slowly downwards...

macropod

Hi Marxitos,

In that case, I suggest checking the Style definitions for consistency between the source & target documents, particularly for the paragraphs being offset and the last paragraph before the offset starts. Any differences in line spacing and/or leading & trailing spaces could account for the offsets you're encountering. I accept that both sets of documents are based on the same template but, if someone's made a change to the Styles in the resulting documents, that change won't necessarily be reflected in other documents based on the same template.

Marxitos

Thanks, I'll try that...