the values of Variables: only per document and not per book?

[Shmuel Wolfson]

Sure. You can import settings from any (open) file to all the other in 
the book. Select all the files in the book, then select File > Import > 
Formats. Only select the item that you want to import, in this case 
variable definitions. Otherwise you can really mess up the doc by 
importing things that were defined differently in one doc than the other.

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Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133


Avraham Makeler wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am new to this group, and pretty new to FrameMaker (but I was a Word 2003
> guru, so that helps a bit...).
>
> My question is ... I am taking over somebody else's document, who is no
> longer around. Amongst other things, I also have to update the document date
> and version number. I found the list of variable definitions that controls
> this values (in Word you also have variables, but also you have fields ...
> whatever), and so in Master pages mode for the title page, I updated those
> variables' values. When I returned to Body pages for the title page, I saw
> indeed that the values have been correctly updated. However, when I look at
> the headers/footers of other chapters (documents), I see that the old values
> are still there. For sure, I can then do the same thing in each chapter, but
> is not the variables scope supposed to be global, i.e., thoughout the book?
>
> Tia
>
> - avi
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