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What an excellent question!!!

Interesting enough that I went and looked up the solution:

• Quit FrameMaker
• Create a backup copy of maker.ini in the Fm install dir (duh)
• In FrameMaker, open custom (no file extension) from the Fm install\init directory. Change this file as needed, save as .fm file in the fm install\init directory. I recommend only minimal changes
  • because of write access issues, I had to save custom.fm to another location, then move into the original location. Depending on sys config, you may be able to directly write in the original directory.
• Open maker.ini in a text editor, change

          CustomDoc=fminit\custom

          to whatever your new template filename will be

          (mine now reads CustomDoc=fminit\custom.fm)

• because of write access issues, I had to save maker.ini to another location, then move into the original location. Depending on sys config, you may be able to directly overwrite maker.ini in the original directory.

-Matt

Matt R. Sullivan
co-author Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 11