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

[Ragnar Hanås]

I´m using the Frame Script SuperImportBundle which does exactly what you ask
for. You can also import single formats as below: 
ImpSelMasterPage (Imports master pages) 
ImpSelRefPage      (Imports reference pages)
    * ImpSelPgfFmt (Imports paragraph formats)
    * ImpSelCharFmt (Imports character formats)
    * ImpSelVarFmt (Imports variable formats)
    * ImpSelTblFmt (Imports table formats)
    * ImpSelColors (Imports colors)
    * ImpSelXRefFmt (Imports cross ref formats)
    * ImpSelCondFmt (Imports condition formats)
    * ImpSelRulingFmt (Imports ruling formats)
    * ImpSelMarkerType (Imports marker types)

See http://framescript.natebus.de/index.php?navi=superimportbundle (in
German, but the script is in English). It is worth every penny if you have
Frame Script.
Ragnar Hanas, MD
Uddevalla Hospital, Sweden

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Steve Rickaby
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 12:32 PM
To: Harding, Daniel B; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Stupid question #843: Importing a SINGLE paragraph style from
another FM file?

At 14:41 +0000 19/8/11, Harding, Daniel B wrote:

>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?

Not a stupid question at all. In addition to Fred and other's responses, if
you want to import a single (or multiple) style across a whole book or
books, try this:

. Copy the document that contains the style you want to propagate. This will
be your 'seed' document for the new/revised style.

. Open the copy and delete all the styles except the one of interest
('Delete' from the relevant palette).

. Import across the book(s) from that document, choosing character,
paragraph or table format import as appropriate (File > Import > Formats).

. Discard the copied document that acted as the 'seed' for the new style
definition.

If the style doesn't already exist in the book(s), it will be added to the
relevant catalog for each document in the book. If the style does exist in
the book(s), the imported style will overwrite the existing style of the
same name.

Obviously you can do this as well for multiple styles.

If you find yourself doing this a lot, SiliconPrairie's very reasonably
priced plug-ins (Character Tools, PAragraph Tools and Table Tools) offer a
command to delete all styles of the relevant type that are not used in a
document.

[These instructions are for pre-FrameMaker v 9 versions: I'm not
sufficiently familiar with the new interface to know where you go to delete
styles in v 10, but it'll be somewhere.]

-- 
Steve
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