Re: Removing outdated FrameMaker styles

Subject: Re: Removing outdated FrameMaker styles
From: hedley_finger -at- myob -dot- com -dot- au
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 16:33:40 +1000


Darriel:

> Does anyone know of a way to strip out Character and Paragraph formats in
> FrameMaker 6.0 that are no longer in use.

The easiest way is to rename all myfiles.fm to myfiles_OLD.fm. Next, copy
your empty template files to myfiles.fm.
Open your empty myfiles.fm and also the corresponding myfiles_OLD.fm. In
myfiles_OLD.fm, press Ctrl-a to select all, Ctrl-c to copy all, and then go
to myfiles.fm and Ctrl-v to paste the clipboard into the new template.

In the status bar, paragraphs that do not have a tag in the para catalogue
are marked with an asterisk. If you have an *old_tag that needs to be
changed to New_Tag, apply New_Tag to a paragraph. Then click in the
paragraph and type Esc e y p to copy the para tag ONLY to the clipboard.

Choose Edit > Find/Change and then set Find to Paragraph Tag and type
old_tag in the box to the right. Set Change to By Pasting. Now you can
Find, Change, or Change & Find to convert old_tag paras to New_Tag.

You can do many other conversions by searching for a tag and applying the
(previously setup) contents of the clipboard.

Finally, subscribe to the FrameMaker lists.

[Windows 2000, FrameMaker 5.5.6p145, FrameScript 1.27C01, Enhance 2.02,
Acrobat 4.05.2, mif2go 31r25, IXgen 5.5.h]

Regards,
Hedley

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Hedley Finger
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