Changed a format's tab stop & imported to 2nd doc--but 2nd doc's tabstop doesn't change

[Robert Shelton]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com 
> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of 
> cewinch at aep.com
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I've got a FM book with several documents in it. In document 
> A, I changed a tab stop in my Header paragraph 
> format--intending that I would then import formats into each 
> of the other documents in the book. Naturally, I'm expecting 
> that once I've done so, the header's tab stop would have 
> automatically changed because I'd imported and therefore 
> replaced its format. (Yes, the format's name is the same in 
> all documents.)
> 
> So--after changing the format in document A, I saved document 
> A and then switched to document B (already open), hit 
> File>Import>Formats, selected document A, selected (only) 
> Paragraph Formats, and hit Import. But when I check the 
> header in document B, the tab stop has remained the same. :-(
> 
> I even tried importing both Paragraph Formats and Page 
> Layouts...to no avail.
> 
> What am I missing here?

Is there an override on the header paragraph in document B? Did you
remove overrides when importing the formats?

Bob

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