Stupid question #843: Importing a SINGLE paragraph style from another FM file?

[Everette, Dimi]

Dear Fred,

Thanks for attempting to make me look like an idiot. :)

I appreciate that you think your way is the only way to accomplish the task, but then, your step 3 mentions the Character Designer, which has nothing to do with the original task. My feeling is that copying a paragraph that you only delete later is a bit juvenile, but, hey, that's just me. I've never had a problem with my steps and I've certainly never screwed up an existing format by following my steps.

Sorry, gang, but it's early Monday morning and I just hate opening my email to find an insult.

Regards,
Dimi


Dimi Everette, Sr. Technical Writer, Video Information Design
6500 River Place Blvd., Bldg. 6, Austin, TX 78730  | t: 512.372.6988 | f: 512.372.7001


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From: Fred Ridder [mailto:docudoc at hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 6:25 PM
To: Everette, Dimi; dharding at illinois.edu; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Stupid question #843: Importing a SINGLE paragraph style from another FM file?

Be careful with Step 6 (that's step 6 in the first procedure, the one with consecutive step numbers). As written, what you are doing is redefining an existing paragraph tag (the one that was applied to the current paragraph) to have the imported formatting characteristics. What I think was desired was to import a paragraph format along with its own tag name, and the easiest way to do that (and avoiding the possibilitiy of mistyping the name in the paragraph Designer) is to copy and paste a paragraph of the desired format, add its format to the paragraph catalog, then delete the paragraph. Anything else is just overcomplicating the process.

-Fred Ridder

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From: Dimi.Everette at Polycom.com
To: docudoc at hotmail.com; dharding at illinois.edu; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 14:48:59 -0700
Subject: RE: Stupid question #843: Importing a SINGLE paragraph style from another FM file?
Or you can:
1.       Right-click in any paragraph with the desired format in the source file and select Copy Special > Copy Paragraph Format.
2.       Go to the target file and select the paragraph you want to apply the format to.
3.       Right-click and select Paste (or just CTRL-V without right-clicking).
4.       With your cursor still in the paragraph, open the Paragraph Designer.
5.       Click Apply, which causes the New Format dialog to appear.
6.       Click Create to store the format in the paragraph catalog and reapply it to the selection.  (You can deselect the Apply to Selection checkbox before clicking Create if you want to.)

The same steps work for copying character formats, except:

2. Go to the target file and select the word or words you want to apply the format to.
4. With your cursor still in the word, open the Character Designer.
6. [of course you're storing the format in the character catalog]


Regards,
Dimi


Dimi Everette, Sr. Technical Writer, Video Information Design
6500 River Place Blvd., Bldg. 6, Austin, TX 78730  | t: 512.372.6988 | f: 512.372.7001


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From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Fred Ridder
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 3:10 PM
To: dharding at illinois.edu; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Stupid question #843: Importing a SINGLE paragraph style from another FM file?

1) Copy any paragraph of the desired format from the source file.
2) Paste it into the target file.
3) Use the Character Designer to add the paragraph format to the current file's catalog.
4) Delete the pasted paragraph.

-FR

> From: dharding at illinois.edu
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Stupid question #843: Importing a SINGLE paragraph style from another FM file?
> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:41:09 +0000
>
> FM10 (Win7 64-bit)
>
> I'm lost on this one: I want to import/copy a single paragraph style definition from one FM file to another. Just that one style, no others, and no content.
>
> How do I do this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Dan
>
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