Re: Deleting formats from mutliple FM Docs

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From: Thomas Michanek
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 12:27

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> It looks like I have to go into each individual FM file and manually
> delete each and every paragraph format in the catalogue. 
> Have I missed something or is this the only way? 

Using the FrameMaker GUI, yes. However, there are third-party plug-ins
that can do this, and you could also save all files to MIF and apply
a MIF editing script or tool to delete some or all formats. I have
such a tool for UNIX, but I'm guessing you're on Windows.

Some plug-ins that may be useful are:
http://www.mekon.co.uk/software/mtools.htm
http://www.systec-gmbh.com/tdsolution/en/loesung/
http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/
http://www.frameexpert.com/scripts/scripts.html


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

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