Reusing Existing Topics

When you write a new Book you'll usually have some topics already written, which you can simply reuse. If they're relevant to more than one Book, you'll probably want to store them in the Shared\Common folder. When you're working in a team with Author-it, everyone can see them easily (depending on their security permissions, of course).

To Add Topics

1. In the Library Explorer select the Shared\Common folder. Author-it displays all the shared objects in this Library in the Object List. We have Copyright Notice and Typographical Conventions objects -- let's use them!
2. Adding these topics to your Book is as simple as dragging and dropping. You may need to move your Book window slightly, so that you can see the contents of the Object List.
3. Hold down the CTRL key while selecting both the Copyright Notice and Typographical Conventions objects, then drag and drop these into your Book's Contents.

   

   You'll notice that the Object List still contains the Copyright Notice and Typographical Conventions -- you can reuse the same topic over and over, and they are all actually the same object, not just disconnected copies. If you change one instance of the topic, they all change at once.

4. Choose Save from the Book Contents toolbar to save these changes.