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Arnis, 

Was this question to me or R. VanDyke? 

If it's me, then this is why I use text insets... 

I create software user guides using FM books. I create a new book for each new version of the software. For each version of the software I also create a new book for the 'custom' variants of the user guides for each client, where 90% of the topic files will be the same, i.e. most of our clients will have some elements of the software that are unique to them. To put it another way - I am re-using most of the topics files in more than one book. 

To allow us to re-use topic files in this way, we have opted to use text insets and import the inset file into a new fm file that is added to the book. We do this for the following reason: 

The topic template design includes cross references to the Title and Subtitle paragraph formats on the title page of the book. It is for this reason that I need to import the text inset. If I were to add the "inset" FM file to the book as you suggest, the cross reference in the inset FM file would be incorrect, i.e. it would point to the title page of another book. 

Is there a way for each topic file to automatically pick up the title and subtitle paragraph formats in the title page of the book the topic is being accessed from? I am always open to alternative solutions <vbg> ... 

Steve 

ps. Thomas - thank you for pointing out my email didn't work - it should work now!