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Winfried RengCommunity Expert
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December 1, 2022
Question

Find with Clone Case works only with lower case replace text

  • December 1, 2022
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Hi,

 

FrameMaker 17.0.0.226, unstructured

I just wanted to replace text with something else. As this text can start with an upper or lower case character, I activated the Clone Case option. However, it did not work. The replacement always started with an upper case character. The issue is that the Clone Case option works only, when you enter the search text with a lower case character.

Enter this text in a FrameMaker file:
Text
Thistext
text
Then search for "text" (or "Text", this does not matter).
Replace with "string" (with lower case s).
Simple search. Activate Clone Case.
Everything fine. FrameMaker replaces with the correct case.
However, now replace with "String" (upper case S).
Now FrameMaker always replaces with "String" with an upper case S. It does not use the same case as in the found text!
This bug makes this feature for many users unusable (i.e. all users who enter the replace text with an upper case character)! I hope that this issue gets fixed in the next update.

If you agree, please vote in the Adobe Tracker:

https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/FRMAKER-8787

 

Best regards

 

Winfried

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    Barb Binder
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    Barb BinderCommunity Expert
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    December 1, 2022

    Hi @Winfried Reng:

     

    I can definitely replicate this, but I'm curious, is this new behavior and/or is it the indended behavior?

     

    Looking at the help files, the examples use a lowercase replace and that seems to be working as expected for both of us. If we know this, won't we will be successful in all instances with a lowercase replace? 

     

    Or is the concern that a user might not know this and could use an uppercase character in the replace text box, derailing the update? I don't know the answers I'm asking here—I'm just trying to understand the concern (and the feature, which honestly, I have rarely used).

     

    ~Barb

     

    ~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
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