First, check to see if the project is structured or not. You need to be careful how you edit it if it is.
A number of us offer custom FrameMaker training, including Barb Binder, FrameExpert (Rick), and myself*. You may want to see if your company is willing to invest in some training/consultation. Depending on how the original project was built and then edited over the years, it could be clean, a total mess, or somewhere inbetween.
*Back in the day when Adobe has Adobe Certified Instructors, there were only four listed in the USA and nine worldwide.
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