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<Kimberly_A._Williams@adobeforums.com> wrote:

> Hello:
> 
> In one of my documents, I've increased the font size of the body tag but
> now my cross references look smaller than the surrounding text. They
> appear to be wrapped in a body tag but the font and point size pull-downs
> in the toolbar appear blank when you click on a cross reference. I can't
> seem to figure out why this occurs. Can someone enlighten me AND give me a
> fix?
> 
> Thanks for your assistance!
> 
> Kimberly
Kimberly, 
If your cross-reference format definition includes something with a
specific font size, your cross-ref text might not follow the body text
size. 
Ron 

Are you using a character tag around the cross reference, e.g. to change the color or underline it? If so, and if the character tag was not created after using the "Set Window to As Is" command first, the character tag could be inadvertently retaining the "older" body font size settings.

This happens to be one of my pet peeves about FM going back forever, that once a character tag is defined there's no blindingly obvious way to know whether the tag was created with the "as is" or not when the tag is displayed in the Character Designer.

The way I check to be 100% certain is to save the file as MIF and then look at the character tag entries. If the dialog was set up with "as is" and then the individual changes made (e.g. underline) and Update All applied, then the MIF entry for the tag will show only that property. If the "as is" wasn't selected first, then the entry for the tag will show all the Character Designer options (family, size, angle, etc etc).

A great freebie MIF tool is MifBrowser, which is available here:

 <http://www.grahamwideman.com/gw/tech/framemaker/mifbrowse.htm>

Sheila:
Thanks for the suggestion but I'm a bit confused about just how to do it. If I save the file as a .MIF, what should I be looking for?

Thanks!
Kimberly

Assuming that you have a character tag around the cross-refs, e.g. one named "SpecialLinkColor" that turns text to Magenta:

In MIFBrowser, or in a text editor, you'd be looking first for the section called "FontCatalog", which is the MIF-speak term for the Character tags catalog.

Then look at the properties that are listed within the FontCatalog for the "Font" that has the FTag name of "SpecialLinkColor".

So for example if SpecialLinkColor chartag is only supposed to change the color of the text it's applied to, the only property of the tag should be "FColor = 'Magenta" [along with the default properties of the FLocked= and FSeparation=]

There should be nothing else like FFamily=xx or FSize=xx.

If there are other properties like FSize, then that means that the character tag is applying all of those properties to the text.

If this is the case then would need to change the character tag to only apply the color (or whatever) property.

Changing a character tag takes a little more finesse, so let's start with just determining if there are character tags applied to the text and then what the character tag properties are, then we'll address how to globally change it to apply only the one property rather than the font size etc etc.

BIG reminder, please be sure to make a good backup of your files before creating the MIF or looking at it in a text editor, so that "inevitable things" don't go bump.

Thanks! The extra information helped me to understand more clearly what you had suggested. I gave it a try and was able to fix the error.