Find / Replace special

[Combs, Richard]

mathieu jacquet wrote:
 
> So now how do I find a word having the bold attribute and 
> change it to Default font + "XYZ" character format?...

The procedure described by Art and Steve will get you most of the way
there, but be on the lookout for one problem. When you copy the char
format, FM copies not just the named char tag, but _all_ the formatting,
including the font, size, etc., that it inherited from the underlying
pgf. 

For the 90+% or so of the strings that are in Body pgfs, or pgfs that
share Body's font, size, etc., this is no problem. But it won't work for
the strings that are in headings, table text (if it uses a different
font/size), etc. You'll have to manually apply the char tag to those. 

I'm hoping against hope that FM8 will have a char format enhancement
I've asked for several years: Instead of (or in addition to) an As Is
setting, the Char Designer should support a From Pgf Format setting. In
that case, if you copy-special the XYZ char format from a Body pgf and
paste it into a Head3, the font, size, etc., would inherit from the
Head3 instead of being carried over from the source. 

HTH!
Richard


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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
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