A Note on Reusing Objects

The rules for how many times an object can be reused in a book depend on the object type. As an example, documents only contain one table of contents, so Author-it only lets you add one Table of Contents object to the book. If you try to add a second Table of Contents object a message is displayed advising that the book already contains an object of that type. However, you can reuse Topic objects and Book objects (as sub books) multiple times within one or more books.

Single use objects

You can include a single instance of each front and back matter object in the book.

• Title Page
• TOC (Table of Contents)
• TOF (Table of Figures)
• Glossary
• Index

Multiple use objects

You can include multiple instances of the following objects in the book.

• Book (used to add sub books to the structure)
• Topic
• File object

When you work in a topic, you can also reuse objects. These will usually be other topics, Hyperlink objects, or File objects. All of these objects can be reused multiple times within one or more topics.