PB building fails because of internal links in Word document

I am trying to create a Personal Book from a thesis, but every time I hit the message 'Build failed. Error while reading document..' I reduced the document to a few paragraphs and discovered that I could create the book when I delete all references to paragraphs and chapters. Here is a snapshot from the Word-document that Logos doesn't like:

If I delete all the references to paragraphs and the phrase "this chapter", it works just fine. I have already deleted all internal links (by selecting all text and pressing Ctrl +Shift+F9), but still there seems to be something behind the text that I fail to discover. Since this is a very long document, I need to understand what is causing the error-message in Logos, and to fix it in the word-document.

Who is able to help me with this?

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DominicM

if you are able to post the DocX will see if I can see anything

what happens if you select it all, and remove the formatting, does it compile then?

André Kamphuis

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/276778#Comment_276778

Sure, here is one chapter that I couldn't get into a Personal Book.

The problem is that I don't see any formatting left. I have already taken out the internal links/references (to other paragraphs or chapters, by ctrl+shft+F9). I have no idea what else I could do. When I copy the content as plain text into another DocX, it gets accepted by the PBB. It would just mean that I have to redo all the headings, right?

Thanks for your help!

8228.Chapter Two.docx

DominicM

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/276786#Comment_276786

Thats what I would do, you have some odd styles in this document, likely the compiler is just being fussy

André Kamphuis

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/276793#Comment_276793

Is there a way to know which styles are causing the problem? Reformatting a +400-pages document is a LOT of work!

Tonya J Ross

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/276786#Comment_276786

André,

I tried compiling your document, and even removing all formatting I could not successfully compile it either. I'm sending your document sample (and the one you posted on this thread as well) to the Development Department for investigation.

André Kamphuis

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/277939#Comment_277939

Hi Tonya and others,

I think I figured out what was causing the problem!

In the original document there were tons of internal links (to other chapters and paragraphs). PBB didn't accept those. I then deleted all internal links (select all text, ctrl+shift+F9). However, by doing this there remained a very little space (non-break-space?) between the paragraph-symbol and the number of that paragraph (and in old links like Chapter 5 - a little space before the number). Once I deleted these (by Replace ALL), the document was imported fine into Logos.

I just finished a 425 pages document. I couldn't have done it without finding out this to be the problem!

JT (alabama24)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/278125#Comment_278125

Great Andre'![:)]

Tonya J Ross

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/278125#Comment_278125

Thank you for the update! I'll add your additional findings to the case to let the developers know. [:)]

Bradley Grainger (Logos)

This document should be able to be compiled successfully in the next update to the Personal Book compiler (4.3 SR-2).