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Re: Globally replacing text with variables in Frame 7.1

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From: Art Campbell
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:20
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Debbie,

Riley's recommendation to copy a variable and replace text by pasting is is the way to do the job. And it works fine at the book level.

You can easily work around the limitation of pasting into tags with different formats by including a <DefaultFont> character tag at the beginning (and probably a good idea at the end of the variable definition. This has the same effect as Riley's F8 keypress, but lets you do a Replace All instead of doing them one-by-one.

The BookVars plug-in is a strong tool, but it doesn't support including character tags in the variable definition, so if you use that method, YMMV. I've found it's best used when cleaning up other's work -- it's great at deleting variables and converting multiple variables to one or more different ones.

Art
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From: "Art Campbell" <art.campbell@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Globally replacing text with variables in Frame 7.1
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