Generating a Book

I've created a book using a 3rd-party template. I now need to generate/update the book. I do not see a Gnerated command on the File menu. Where is that command, or how do I do this?
Thanks!

Dave,
Two things:
When you open a content file, did you click some place in the content? The insertion point needs to be inside a text flow to show structure in the structure view.
It is possible, though I would think rare, to have a structured book with unstructured content files. In my work, I use a structured book that has mostly structured document files, but also has a few unstructured ones. So, I am thinking that maybe the original author used an old structured book file and added unstructured files to it, which would give you the results you are seeing.
Van

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