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> Use the escape p z shortcut to bring up the freeze pagination dialog,

Every time this feature is mentioned, I feel the urge to warn a little about it:

The feature is not available through any menu, and it's not documented!
The reason is that this feature is so badly implemented that it isn't
really worth the effort in trying to use it, unless for very simple files.

If you only have documents with a single flow, no tables that breaks
between pages, no paragraphs that break between pages, and no floating
graphics, then this feature may be usable. The problem with freezing
pagination is that each page will become a page and a flow of its own,
a bit like disconnected pages, which will affect all paragraph numbering.

Also, if a table breaks between pages, the entire table is anchored
at the first page, and the parts of the table that's on the following
pages are put into "point pages"! Then the text that follows the table
is put on the next non-point page. To avoid this, you'll have to manually
split the table into several separate tables and anchor them at the top
of the correct non-point page... 

For paragraphs that break between pages, they are split into two separate
paragraphs that won't be re-joined if you unfreeze the pagination.

Graphics in anchored frames that are floating, and thereby put on a
different page than the anchor, receive the same treatment as tables
broken between pages: they are put into a point page with the remaining
text on the page containing the graphic put on the next non-point page.

You'll spend endless time correcting things like this, and then the same
amount of time changing it back if you ever unfreeze the pagination.


-- 
/Thomas Michanek, FrameMaker/UNIX/MIF expert
mailto:Thomas.Michanek@telia.com
http://go.to/framers/