That is just a result of poor training. It may or may not be the designer's fault--most likely the company/manager is to blame by not providing the training or enforcing a professional workflow.
In my experience, once a designer sees the advantages of using based-on master pages, text styles, and object styles, they will be happy to switch over. This is especially true for large projects like a book. David Creamer IDEAS Training ADOBE Authorized Instructor & Certified Expert since 1994 Training on: Acrobat, LiveCycle Designer, InDesign, InCopy, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, After Effects, Fireworks, Premiere Pro, Dreamweaver, Captivate, RoboHelp FrameMaker Certified since 1991, including structured XML Authorized QuarkXPress Instructor and Certified Expert since 1988 Microsoft Office training, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, Project, and more FileMaker Business Alliance member: Trainer Authorized FlightCheck Instructor -----Original Message----- Regrettably, that isn't necessarily true. A lot of the folks who use InD are first and foremost *designers*, and have no qualms about hand-formatting everything on the page to produce a lovely composition. It can be very difficult to get users with that mindset to switch to a structure-based/formats-driven viewpoint. Additionally, a huge number of the InD users I've worked with/trained in long document work can't even set up an auto-bulleted paragraph, let alone autonumbering, and I shudder to think what would happen if they tried indexing. I would qualify the below statement by saying that if they are already using InD the way one needs to use Frame, you'll have no problem training them. If, on the other hand, their preferred approach is to use InD the way one might use Illustrator, you're in for a rough ride. I'll never forget the time a client had me update the InD files for their product catalog: 235 pages containing ~800 products, a TOC and an index, without a single paragraph/character format defined, no generated TOC or index, no book files, not even auto-connected text flows from page to page. The most advanced thing they'd done was add a page number to the master page. But the catalog *looked* lovely! _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com