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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Hi Lin,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">I was sure.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">If you open a MIF snippet to be able to import formats</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">from it, all variables which are not defined in the MIF snippet</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">are populatead with the default values. That’s why I never used</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">it to import formats from it. However, if you do import formats,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">it seems that these default values are _<i>not</i>_ imported although</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">they are there. Strange.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">If you import the MIF snippet as a file, then you can import it only</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">into a single file. Of course you can then import variables into</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">all other files of the book. However, this is not what the poster</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">wanted.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">I would make a book with all the files (from all the folders</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">and subfolders) and use one of the plugin to import a single</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">variable.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Best regards</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Winfried</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Lin Sims [mailto:ljsims.ml@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 19, 2013 2:56 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Reng, Dr. Winfried<br>
<b>Cc:</b> ETudsbery@cpaglobal.com; Frame Users<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: mass update of system variable</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Really? I've used a MIF snippet in the last month to update all the variables in a book file, and that was in Frame10.
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(ETudsbury, I forgot to say that you have to reopen the MIF file in FrameMaker, but I figured you'd know that since the file you're importing from has to be open.)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Reng, Dr. Winfried <<a href="mailto:wreng@tycoint.com" target="_blank">wreng@tycoint.com</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Hi,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">MIF snippets do not work.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">You can import the MIF snippet only via import by copy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">into a single file. If you would then import the variables</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">from this file into other files (via import formats), you would</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">import all variables.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">I would recommend to check the variable plugins from</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Leximation and Silicon Prairie Software:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"><a href="http://leximation.com/tools/" target="_blank">http://leximation.com/tools/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/" target="_blank">http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">I do not know these plugins. However, I am sure</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">they would help you.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Best regards</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Winfried</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com" target="_blank">framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com" target="_blank">framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Lin Sims<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 19, 2013 2:36 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ETudsbery@cpaglobal.com" target="_blank">ETudsbery@cpaglobal.com</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Frame Users<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: mass update of system variable</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="">MIF snippet.<br>
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1. Open a blank document and edit the variables you want to update.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="">2. Save as a MIF file.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="">3. Open the MIF file in a TEXT editor.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="">4. Delete everything but the code for the variables you want to update.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="">5. Save and close the file.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">6. Open the files you want to update and import variables from the MIF snippet.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Let me know if you have questions. :)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="">Lin</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="">On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:25 AM, <<a href="mailto:ETudsbery@cpaglobal.com" target="_blank">ETudsbery@cpaglobal.com</a>> wrote:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hello,</span>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I'd like to update the definition for the system variable "Running H/F1" for hundreds of FrameMaker 7.2 files. I don't want to update other user variables, so I can't use the Import > Formats > Variable definitions
method. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Does anyone know of a painless way of doing this?</span>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">regards, </span><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Edwin Tudsbery</span> </p>
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