Book Contents Toolbar

Book Contents Toolbar

Use the Book Contents Toolbar to manage the structure of your document, and to add or remove objects from the Book's contents. The Book Contents Toolbar is displayed when you open a Book object in the Properties view or in the Editor.

Book Properties
Editor

This Button		Does This

	Promote	Promotes the selected object to be at the same level as its parent in the hierarchy.
	Demote	Demotes the selected object to be the first child of the object immediately preceding it in the hierarchy.
	Move Up	Moves the selected object before its preceding object in the hierarchy.
	Move Down	Moves the selected object after the object following it in the hierarchy.
	Expand	Only available in the Book Properties. Expands the hierarchy to reveal the children of the selected object.
	Collapse	Only available in the Book Properties. Collapses the hierarchy to hide the children of the selected object.
	Expand All	Expands the entire contents hierarchy to reveal all objects.
	Collapse All	Collapses the entire contents hierarchy to hide all but the top level objects.
	Open	Opens the selected object.
	Remove	Removes the selected object and all of its descendents from the contents of the Book. When you remove an object from a Book, Author-it will prompt you to permanently delete it from the Library if it has no relationships with other objects.
	Save Book	Saves the Book.
	New Topic	Only available in the Editor. Creates a new Topic. The drop down menu displays a list of available Topic object templates to choose from. That template is remembered and used by each new Topic until a new template is selected.
	Show Topic Pane	Only available in the Editor. Shows the topic pane.
	Show Details	Only available in the Editor. Shows the details of the objects in the Book Contents.
	Lock Book Contents	Locks the Book Contents to protect against accidental changes.

See Also

Book Contents Editor

Book Contents

This is a hierarchical outline list used to built the content and structure of your book. You can include Title Page, Table of Contents, Table of Figures, File, Topic, Glossary, and Index objects.