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Started by R._VanDyke
Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:04
Most efficient way to apply Paragraph Style A to Paragraph style B?
Author: R._VanDyke
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:04
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:04
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I'm looking for the most efficient way to all all aspects of an existing named paragraph style "A" to another named paragraph style "B". I'd especially like to find a keyboard-only way to do this. To my surprise, Copy Special > Paste doesn't seem to copy tab settings...(?) This leads me to suppose that other aspects of the source p'style may not be crossing the Great Paste Divide. Over the years I've used a variety of more or less clumsy multi-step, multi-tool "tricks" (including third-party plug-ins) to apply one named paragraph style to another, but knowing FrameMaker as I do I suspect there may be a truly efficient way to do what I want. Is there? Cheers & thanks, Riley
Re: Most efficient way to apply Paragraph Style A to Paragraph style B?
Author: Arnis_Gubins
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:30
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:30
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Riley, Whenever I do a Copy Special > Paragraph formats and then paste the tag to another paragraph, I always DO get the tabs, even when using the Find/Change. Am I missing something in your question? Which version of FM are you seeing this in?
Re: Most efficient way to apply Paragraph Style A to Paragraph style B?
Author: R._VanDyke
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:14
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:14
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Arnis: 8.0p277. The Font family and style got Pasted -- that was immediately apparent. And based on all I know about F'Maker, I would've thought the tabs would go over. But when I opened the target p'style the Tabs area was completely blank. I'm not sure if anything else wasn't making it 'cross the Paste Divide: Once the Tabs weren't Pasted, I fell back to a different, brute-force strategy simply to get around the problem and return to work... Moreover, since the structured templates I inherited for this project are full of idiosyncrasies, I'll just file this one away under "The Templates Did It" and hope for better luck the next time I try the Copy Special thing... Cheers & thanks for your help, Riley
Re: Most efficient way to apply Paragraph Style A to Paragraph style B?
Author: Arnis_Gubins
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:56
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:56
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Riley, Since you're using structured FM for this, it's always possible that there's something in the EDD that is overriding the paragraph formatting.
Re: Most efficient way to apply Paragraph Style A to Paragraph style B?
Author: Pulkit_Jain
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:39
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:39
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Riley, Open Para designer. Change the paragraph tag to Paragraph style B. Go to Commands drop down in para designer. Click on Global update options. In the next dialog select All Properties and All Tagged with paragraph style A. Click on Update. With this all the paragragh style A will be converted to style B. Regards Pulkit
Re: Most efficient way to apply Paragraph Style A to Paragraph style B?
Author: R._VanDyke
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:28
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:28
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Pulkit, Arnis: Thanks to both of you. If I happen to discover why the Copy Special > Paste sequence wasn't working I'll be sure to update this thread... Cheers, RBV
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