Replace a para tag throughout book?

[Fred Ridder]

Responding to Diane Gaskill's question about a method of 

propagating a new paragraph format across a book, Art 

Campbell wrote:


> Yup. Just set "book" to the apply range and you should be all set.

> Remember that it won't remove the old tag, but the new one should be

> in place.

 

> > Can this method be used to globally rename a tag across a set of book files?

 

> > > Or, create one of your Callout_Large paras, then Copy Special 

> > > Paragraph Format.

> > > In the Find dialog box, specify the book range, search for

> > > Callout_Regular, and replace by pasting.

 

Note that while this technique does paste the new tag name and

its format properties into each file where it makes a replacement,

it does *not* add it to the Paragraph Catalog, so that it will show

up as an override (asterisked) in all files except the one where you

originally applied it. And also note that it will not add the new 

tag name and formatting at all to any file where the old tag was 

not actually applied to a paragraph in the document, so the new

tag may or may not be ubiquitous after using this technique. 

 

So while this approach may be a quick and dirty alternative to using

a script or a plug-in to do the tag renaming/replacement, you may

ultimately find it to be a little too far on the dirty side and not as 

quick as it first seems.

 

-Fred Ridder