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Anonymous

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Delete Character tag: Default Paragraph Font

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January 2, 2015
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I am working on an old project and many of the plain paragraphs have a Character Tag of Default Paragraph Font and other paragraphs do not. This is creating a problem for me when I export the document. Any ideas as how to quickly remove it from the whole document?

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Anonymous

So I did another test and I created a new blank document and "Default ¶ Font does not display anywhere.

Bob_Niland

Community Expert

> ... and "Default ¶ Font" does not display anywhere.

It never shows up in Format > Character > Character Designer.

Is it not listed in the palette for the [ƒ] tool?

In further testing, it takes some effort to create a Character Format that does the same thing as Default ¶ Font. The Format > Character > Character Designer dialog throws an error if all fields are set to As-Is or blank. You have to create it with at least one attribute set to non-default, then revise it to set that to default.

On a new- from-factory-default template, you end up with a Font Catalog that looks like this in MIF:

<FontCatalog

<Font

> # end of Font

<Font

> # end of Font

<Font

> # end of Font

> # end of FontCatalog

Notice that Default ¶ Font is not in the catalog. It's hard-wired into FM.

I'm wondering why this oddball "Default Paragraph Format" was created. I suspect that whoever did it needed it for some Variable or Xref, and didn't know that the construct "<Default ¶ Font>" is standard in the dialogs for those.

And yes, you could fix this with MIF mucking, but let's not go there for the moment.

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Anonymous

Note: I am using FM10.

The Character Format is "Default Paragraph Font" and "Default ¶ Font" also displays as the first entry in the Character Catalog. As a test I deleted another type of character format and it no longer displayed in the list. I tried to delete the problem from the list, opened the char list again and it was still there. Very stubborn.

Bob_Niland

Community Expert

Does this old document actually have a Character Format named "Default Paragraph Font" (or "Default ¶ Font")?

The Character Palette, as the top entry, always shows a "Default ¶ Font", which removes any Character Tags when applied to a selection. It is not itself a Character Tag.

Curiously, FM will allow you to create an actual tag named "Default ¶ Font", in which case both show up in the palette. The remover remains at the top, and the clone appears in normal alphabetical order.

I tried a couple of things for removing a remaindered character tag, but they didn't work, If the tag is deleted from the catalog, one would expect instances where it was applied to become overrides, and any update-all of the affect paragraph tags to present a [Remove Overrides] option. Didn't happen. Hmmm.

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