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<p>Hi Nancy,</p>
<p>now I have been going through your little action list again.</p>
<p>What could be crucial here, is to make sure that the para format is exactly what you want to have in its "basic" definition.</p>
<p>So for example you say:</p>
<p>4. Changed the color of Title to red.</p>
<p>Ok, you changed the color - but where? This may somehow only produce an override definition. You have to "apply to all" (I am sorry, I don't know what this option next to "apply" is called in the English version). Because only then you can be sure that also the basic definition of the Title is affected and that you reimport the changed Title para (with red color font). Else you would simply reimport exactly the same font definition as you had imported into the Addformats file at first.</p>
<p>This may be a point. What I do not understand, though, is why editing the mif did not work, as Arial is installed on your system. You might check again how Arial is exactly referenced in a mif (from a file where Arial is used) - maybe Harro was right that simply replacing with "Arial" did not take.</p>
<p>Best wishes -</p>
<p>Tino H. Haida, Berlin</p>
<p>Nancy Allison:</p>
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<div>Hi, Tino.</div>
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<div>I can't supply the file, unfortunately, since my employer would not allow it. Thanks for your willingness to help, though.</div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; color: #000000; font-size: 12px;">On 03/21/13, <span>Heiko Haida<info@heiko-haida.de></span> wrote:</span>
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<p>Hi Nancy,</p>
<p>I repeated these actions with one of my files - everything's ok and fine.</p>
<p>I have FM 10 with all updates on Win XP.</p>
<p>Could you supply the file?</p>
<p>Best regards -</p>
<p>Tino H. Haida, Berlin</p>
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<p>Nancy Allison:</p>
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<div>Hi, Harro.</div>
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<div>I finally went manually through each paragraph format and changed the font from TimesNewRoman to Arial and used Update All and that solved the problem. The system does have Arial, and most of the paragraphs did not have overrides.</div>
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<div>I did a further test:</div>
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<div>For clarity: The file that seems impervious to alterations to paragraph tags, whether through .mif or Import, is ImperviousFile.</div>
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<div>The file that I use for creating and then exporting a clean paragraph tag is called AddFormats. In other words, if I want to modify a paragraph tag in one or more .fm files, I create the clean tag in AddFormats and then import it from AddFormats into my .fm files.</div>
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<div>In my test I:</div>
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<div>1. Deleted all paragraph tags from AddFormats.</div>
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<div>2. Successfully imported all the paragraph tags from ImperviousFile.</div>
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<div>3. Deleted all paragraph tags except Title from AddFormats. (This is the chapter title para tag.)</div>
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<div>4. Changed the color of Title to red.</div>
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<div>5. Imported para tags only from AddFormats to ImperviousFile.</div>
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<div>Result: The chapter title did not change color and the Title para tag did not change attributes!</div>
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<div>I have edited ImperviousFile and saved it, so it is not locked.</div>
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<div> What the heck is going on?</div>
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