[Framers] Best way to replace one template with another without using plugins?

[Mike Wickham]

If the paragraph/character tag names are all the same in the new 
template, you can select all the files in the book and then import the 
formats. Any formats that are the same name will be overwritten. Any in 
the old document that don't exist in the new template, will be left 
untouched, and any formats that exist in the new template, but not the 
document, will be added. This could leave you with formats that you no 
longer want and would want to manually delete.

The Paragraph Tools and Character Tools plugins 
fromhttp://siliconprairiesoftware.com 
<http://siliconprairiesoftware.com>let you create a conversion list that 
can rename formats from one name to another in a single stroke, making 
it easy to import from a new template that has different format names.

Mike Wickham

On 4/12/2016 2:48 AM, Studio Smalbro wrote:
> What is the best way to replace on template with another using only 
> FrameMaker 12?
> Can it be done bookwide?
>
> As of now I manually delete all tags and formats and do an Import 
> Formats, and it works, but it is cumbersome and prone to errors. Can 
> it be done otherwise?
>
> Best regards
> Bjørn