Are you able to Save cell formats in Framemaker?

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December 27, 2017
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Are there "cell styles" in Framemaker 2017 (as in InDesign)?

I have figured out the Table formats but can't find a way to save a row format as a style.

For example I have a very length table where I would like to create a row format where the text is bold and keep with the next row is on.
So this rows acts as a "subhead" if you will.
When the table gets edited I don't want the row with the bold text to be separated from the row that follows it

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Correct answer Matt-Tech Comm Tools

No way to set multiple standards within the same table, but the paragraph tag pattern for header, footer, and body rows are stored in the table tag, so if you set your body row cells with the desired tags and save the table format in Table Designer you should get new rows that have the proper pattern.

However, if you have a series of patterns, you can copy/paste full rows to create new rows with unique patterns.

Matt-Tech Comm Tools

Community Expert

Use Table > Format > Row Format to keep the bold subhead together with the row following it.

-Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant

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Kim LarkinAuthor

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Thanks anyways Matt - I did manage to figure that part out.
I must admit I am frustrated with the transition from InDesign to FM.
FM can do ridiculously complicated things - but the simple little things I want it to do - are simply not available.
Everything ends up being an override and even then you can't even tell what's an override and what's not!

Matt-Tech Comm Tools

Correct answer

Community Expert

No way to set multiple standards within the same table, but the paragraph tag pattern for header, footer, and body rows are stored in the table tag, so if you set your body row cells with the desired tags and save the table format in Table Designer you should get new rows that have the proper pattern.

However, if you have a series of patterns, you can copy/paste full rows to create new rows with unique patterns.

-Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant

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Kim LarkinAuthor

Participant

My table is almost 200 pages long - was hoping to tag these rows with a style so that if I wanted to change the font, or colour or the background shading of that "subheading row" I could do it by editing that cell style without altering the rest of the body rows.

Matt-Tech Comm Tools

Community Expert

Yes, I can identify with your experience moving from (DTP) toward Fm.

FrameMaker is a more specific tool than InDesign, so the trick is to identify what Fm does well, and work within those parameters.

Both are great tools, but I think of Id as allowing me the freedom to customize formatting, and Fm as allowing me to separate formatting from content.

-Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant

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