FrameMaker search

Steve Johnson chinaski69 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 11 17:18:09 PST 2011


This is for Frame 9:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/9.0/Using/WSd817046a44e105e21e63e3d11ab7f7862b-7ff6.html

Frame supports wildcard characters in search but it might not do what
you want. You should post this question on the Adobe Frame forum as
well.

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Nancy Allison <maker at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Hi, all.
>
> I need to correct the measurements, in inches, in which the space has been omitted between the number and the unit.
>
> In other words:
>
> Height: 17in
> Depth: 21in
> Width: 10in
>
> Or:
>
> The unit is 17in deep.
>
> In Word, I could specify that a numerical value precedes the alpha characters "in" and perform a search.
>
> In FrameMaker, is there a way to make a search that specific?
>
> As it is, I believe I have to search for every instance of "in," which turns up every word that contains the two letters "in" including, well, **including**.
>
> It's rare that I long for Word, but this is one of those instances. I can save the whole thing to RTF and do the search in Word, but I'd like to find out first if Frame has the capability.
>
> --Nancy
>
>
>
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