Convert text to variables

[Christenson, Pat]

Thanks, Mike. I knew about the manual one-at-a-time way but was hoping to find something faster. I guess I'll have to look into ExtendScript.

Pat


From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Mike Wickham
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 4:57 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Convert text to variables

You can do it from within FrameMaker, but not all in one step. Simply create your variable and then copy your variable to the clipboard. Then use Find/Change. Enter the text you want to replace in the Find section and   choose "By Pasting" in the Change section. The paste function will create the variable and substitute it for the text in any other documents that you paste into. So you only have to create and copy the variable once.

If you have a lot of terms to convert, this could take a while. So you might want to use FrameScript or ExtendScript to create a script to do it for you.

Mike Wickham
On 6/28/2013 2:44 PM, Christenson, Pat wrote:
Is there a plugin that allows you to convert text to a variable?

We have a long list of terms that correspond to existing variables in numerous documents. If we can convert the text to variables (without manually redefining each one), it would really speed things up.



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