🚀 go-pugleaf

> So far, in one book, I have found over 70 paragraph styles,
> and only 12 being used. 

Be aware of the fact that a format/style/tag may be used within a
document, even though it's not visible or cannot be found by searching.
For instance, a character tag may be used *only* for autonumbering
strings or in variable definitions, and a Find won't reveal them.
Paragraph tags may be used in table definitions, even though such a
table isn't currently present in the document. Etcetera.

> Docs here have been highly unorganized for ages. The company now knows
> this, and I have been brought in to help fix the situation. Having proof
> of the before and after is a must.

This is one of the benefits with my UNIX scripts. They automatically
find all usages of formats and reports all unused ones, used but not
included in catalogs, etc. You can create a report of the initial
files and after cleaning them up, and see the improvement. They're not
the best designed tools in the world or the easiest to use, and they
only run on UNIX, but they can be a good start for cleaning up documents.

It's quite possible there are similar tools for Windows, with a nice
GUI and all. :-)


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