Convert text to variables

[Craig Ede]

To do them all at once, just say "Replace All". This will replace all
throughout a book with the right settings chosen. Also, if you don't have a
book, you can build a temporary one that includes all your files. You
probably one to test with will a one-by-one replace to make sure you are
getting what you want. Remember that case differences might cause a problem.

 

I doubt that FrameScript could do it better and coding this would certainly
be slower.

 

Craig

 

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[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Christenson, Pat
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 10:10 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Convert text to variables

 

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

 

 

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[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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