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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.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
Mike Wickham<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/28/2013 2:44 PM, Christenson, Pat
wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is there a plugin that allows you to
convert text to a variable?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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