Last paragraph in FM file cannot be modified

[Chris Despopoulos]

This is so wierd, because this JUST happened to me last night.  Indeed, it's a 
Word document opened in Maker.  For my situation, it happened to the PGF that 
follows a text inset...  once in a table cell, so it was the last pgf in the 
flow, and another time in the middle of the document.

I found that if I inserted a bunch of pgfs in front of the dodgy one (hit return 
a few times), I could then modify the format for those pgfs.  Then, if I deledet 
up from the bad one, it took the formatting of the previous pgfs.  So that fixed 
the problem for me.

Very odd, and scary.  The usual MIF washing didn't have any effect.  I was 
scared that maybe the file was corrupt, but I think I can trust it.  Time will 
tell...


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This has happened to me a few times. I've deleted the paragraph in  
MIF and it worked fine.

Pat Christenson

On Dec 20, 2010, at 3:01 PM, Roy Lewis 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