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Anonymous
March 5, 2012
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FrameMaker Auto Changing Indentation

  • March 5, 2012
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Hello all,

I don't know why, but for a week now FrameMaker has been changing my indentation automatically sometimes when I bring in new content or change content. While this normally would not be a big deal, it will not led me change it back (at least not by dragging the arrows on the ruler, which is how I'm used to doing it). The only way I have been able to fix it is to start from scratch all over again on whatever document it does it, which is obviously a big waste of time. So, two questions:

1) How do I fix it when this happens

2) How to stop it from happening.

Thanks in advance.

EDIT:  Closed FrameMaker to do something else and when I reopened it, it was fixed. Is this simply a bug that can be fixed by restarting FrameMaker?  If so, I wish I had known that before I redid a whole document last week...

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Bob_Niland
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Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
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March 5, 2012

Explain: "... bring in new content or change content."

If you are pasting from another FM document, you are going to get the indents (and everything else in the para fmt) as local overrides. Re-applying the current document's format for that para tag can fix that, and you can do this globally and fix them all).

... it will not led me change it back (at least not by dragging the arrows on the ruler, which is how I'm used to doing it).

Can you change it in the Paragraph Designer dialog?

I never use the ruler widgets, and my guess is that they also merely cause an ephemeral local override. If you want, for example, for all "Body" paras to have an indent of 0.04 furlongs, set that in
Format > Paragraph Designer > Basic
 and [Update All].

For extra credit, also check that [_] Next Pgf Tag: is doing what you want.

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Anonymous
March 5, 2012

Normally it's happening when I am bringing in a picture or copying and pasting text, but its not the actual new content that is changing, but rather text in a completely different frame, often with a different flow tag.  Typically, it changes the first line of the page. It also seems to do it the most when that first line is centered and moving the indent to the centered location, so that my centered text is now 3/4 to the right, but if I change it to left indentation, while that now makes the first line centered any subsequent lines are now left indented all the way to the left end of the frame. I have tried designer as well, but to no avail because it doesn't recognize that I have put in a new Tab Stop (because I didn't - FM did).

The fact that closing the program and reopening it fixes the problem is leading me to think it's a bug.

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