Last paragraph in FM file cannot be modified

[Roy Lewis]

Bingo!
There was <PgfLocked Yes> in the file. Sadly, changing it to <PgfLocked No> did not resolve the problem.
However, removing the MIF code for the entire paragraph did make the offending paragraph go away and it also restored the section sign to the new last paragraph.

I did look at the MIF reference guide and found this for PgfLocked:
Yes means the paragraph is part of a text inset that obtains its formatting
properties from the source document.

However, this does not appear to be a text inset, so I am not sure this applies. 

In summary, I have a solution. Thank you! But I would love to know if there was another way of fixing it other than editing MIF XML, that always makes me nervous.

Thanks everyone!
Roy

--- On Mon, 12/20/10, Les Smalley <l_c_smalley at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Les Smalley <l_c_smalley at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Last paragraph in FM file cannot be modified
To: "Roy Lewis" <roy_g_lewis at yahoo.com>
Cc: "Framers List" <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
Date: Monday, December 20, 2010, 5:26 PM

It very well may be that the paragraph is locked... I recall seeing this, and the only solution I remember was to edit the MIF file directly.  The statement you need to find and change is <PgfLocked Yes> to <PgfLocked No> in the MIF file.  I don't have FM8 on this system so the following may not be exactly what you see but should serve as reasonable guidance...

You can edit the MIF as text via FrameMaker by selecting it as normal through the FM Open Dialog, but hold the shift key when you click the 'open' button.  This will bring up the "open as Text" dialog and you want to be sure to choose the "treat each line as a paragraph" option.  You must also be sure to SAVE it as TEXT after editing (else you get a frame document showing the MIF code itself)

Or use a regular text editor (I like Notepad++ from SourceForge -
 it's free) to edit the MIF.

I don't understand why you don't see the closing section symbol, perhaps it is set to white or a very small point size, or maybe the text overflows the text frame and the autoconnect feature is off... there are a few possible reasons.

– Les Smalley

--- On Mon, 12/20/10, Roy Lewis <roy_g_lewis at yahoo.com> wrote:
FM8 running on Win XP.

On some files that were converted from MSWord by an intern last summer, I have noticed that the last paragraph in the fm file cannot have its properties modified nor can the paragraph be deleted. By modifing properties I mean that I cannot change the tag name or any properties. It is like the paragraph itself is locked.
Unfornately the properties of the tag are causing other issues in the document dealing with header and
 footers. 

All I really want to do is to delete the paragraph, that would solve the problem, but it cannot be deleted. Other parts of the document can be easily edited without issue, it is just the very last paragraph. The other odd behavior I see is that being the last paragraph it is not showing the section sign text symbol like I have seen in every other Framemaker file.

I have tried Wash via MIF with no success. 

Does anyone have suggestions as to how this might have happened or how I can go about fixing it?

Thanks,
Roy