Retrospectively standardising the styles across my book

[Joy Kocar]

Hi Andy,

I recently redid the styles for our template so that I could take advantage
of keyboard shortcuts with [F9]. (I didn't realize how much style creep I
had created.)

Paragraph Tools was invaluable (
http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/Products.html).

It can create a list of paragraph tags in a file. You can edit the list to
keep the tags you want, then have it remove the tags that are not on the
list. If you rename tags such as Heading1 to h1, Heading2 to h2, and so on,
it has a convert feature to help you do this all at once. It also has a
remove overrides feature.

With a series of File > Import > Formats > Paragraph Formats and the various
Paragraph tools I was able to set up a standard set of styles for a 22
chapter book and a chapter template.

Hope that helps. I can explain in more detail if you contact me off list.


Joy Kocar, EIT
Training Materials Lead Engineer
www.maptek.com




On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Smith, Andy <Andy.Smith at veoliawater.com>wrote:

> Some of you may have gathered from the couple of questions I’ve asked
> before that I’m fairly new to Frame. I used 7.2 quite extensively a couple
> of years ago, although I never set up the project or the styles. Last year I
> started this project on Frame 9 and had to build the book and all the styles
> from scratch. I’ve pretty much taught myself as I’ve gone along.
>
>
>
> I’ve done my best to keep my styles consistent across all my chapters,
> using one of the chapters as the master chapter but I didn’t manage to
> successfully set up a template at the beginning. So now I find that I would
> like to standardise all the styles across the document and retrospectively
> create a template chapter that contains the master version of all the
> styles.
>
>
>
> Is there any advice on this? For a start should I attempt it at all or will
> it be more trouble than it is worth or should I just continue using one of
> the chapters as the master instead of having a template? Are there any other
> issues I should consider?
>
>
>
> I do find that, sometimes, when I update the book I do get warnings about
> overrides which I assume are manual changes I’ve made to styles that don’t
> conform to the rest but I must admit I don’t understand this in detail.
>
>
>
> Andy Smith
> Documentation Engineer
> Elga Lab Water
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> England
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