Convert text to variables

[Mike Wickham]

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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