Conditional Text Just Won't Go Away

[Art Campbell]

Have you washed the file by saving out to MIF and opening that file?
Is there any chance that you have book-level conditional text settings
turned on that would over-ride the component chapter file's settings?

Art

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Jona Steenbrink
<jsteenbrink at bluefinrobotics.com> wrote:
> Sadly, that is not the problem. Track changes are not, and were not, on.
>
> It's a mystery.
>
> On May 21, 2008, at 10:12 AM, Flato, Gillian wrote:
>
>> The problem is your track changes feature is on. Go to View > Track
>> Text
>> Edit Bar to open the menu. Accept all of the changes and then turn off
>> the feature.
>>
>>
>> -Gillian
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Steenbrink
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 3:20 PM
>> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
>> Subject: Conditional Text Just Won't Go Away
>>
>> Disclaimer: I apologize if this message appears on the list twice. The
>> first time I sent it, I did not use the email address that is
>> registered with framers.
>>
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> FM    8.0p273
>> Windows XP (running on parallels on a Mac)
>>
>> I am fast approaching the end of my tether working with conditional
>> text.
>>
>> FM won't let me make some segments of text unconditional. In fact,
>> when I try to remove the conditional tag, the text turns bright green
>> with a strikethrough effect. What's more... when I try again, it's now
>> bright red with a strikethrough effect. And, (hullo, what's this?) now
>> it's bright red with a strikethrough effect and a change bar.
>>
>> All three conditions in the document are set to Style: As Is, and
>> three different colors (green, olive, and magenta).
>>
>> I cannot make this text unconditional.  Selecting (or deselecting)
>> Special > Conditional Text > Show Conditional Text at the document
>> level or the book level affects all of the conditionally tagged
>> paragraphs except for these red, struck through, paragraphs.
>>
>> What's going on? Is it FM telling me that I'm doing something very
>> wrong? I've looked at the FM documentation, and it's giving me
>> nothing. Does anyone have any idea what might be happening here?
>>
>> Update: I also cannot copy and paste any of the affected text. If I
>> select it, ctrl+c and then ctrl+v somewhere else, it won't paste.
>> Although I can Edit > Undo Paste. Go figure. Is it possible that these
>> segments of text have, through some action or combination of actions,
>> become hopelessly corrupted? Is that even possible?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jona Steenbrink
>>
>>
>>
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