mass update of system variable

[Lin Sims]

Shmuel,

Yes, you understood correctly. That's how Shlomo showed me how to do it. I
took his two FrameMaker template courses a few years ago.

Lin


On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Shmuel Wolfson <shmuelw1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Craig,
>
> According to Lin, you use File > Import > Formats and import variables.
>
> From Lin Sims:
>
> 1. Open a blank document and edit the variables you want to update.
> 2. Save as a MIF file.
> 3. Open the MIF file in a TEXT editor.
> 4. Delete everything but the code for the variables you want to update.
> 5. Save and close the file.
> 6. Open the files you want to update and import variables from the MIF
> snippet.
>
> Lin: please correct me if I'm understanding incorrectly.
>
> Regards,
> Shmuel Wolfson
> Technical Writer
> 052-763-7133
>
>
> On 22-Apr-13 4:01 AM, Craig Ede wrote:
>
>> If I remember, you have to File > Import > File with MIF snippets. That
>> means you have to import it one file at a time, doesn't it? (Unlike File >
>> Import > Formats across a book). This is because you are actually
>> importing
>> the content into each file (even though it is "invisible" in a sense).
>>
>> Correct me if I'm wrong.
>>
>> Craig
>>
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>> Subject: Re: mass update of system variable
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>> If the MIF snippet or some other approach works, you could do all files at
>> once by creating a scratch book, using Windows' search to find all your
>> .fm
>> files, and dragging and dropping the found files into the book. Then, in
>> FrameMaker, select all the files in the book and import the snippet.
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