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dragonwave
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March 4, 2015
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How to search for a certain cross reference using its name in FM 11?

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How to search for a certain cross reference using its name in FM 11?

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Russ Ward
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March 4, 2015

dragonwave,

You are likely not getting any responses because you have provided no details. Are you using the Find dialog box, the FDK, Extendscript, or what? And, what is a "name"... do you mean the cross-reference format? What exactly are you trying to do?

Russ

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dragonwaveAuthor
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March 5, 2015

Well, thank you. I am only using Find dialog box. By "name", I'd like to give an example. The background is FM 11 structured. I have an element "xref" which is used to make cross reference. Now In Chapter 1, there is a sentence like "This is an ODU for ...". I made a cross ref of the word "ODU" to its full name "outdoor unit" in Chapter 2 (in the same book). After this, the word "ODU" in the sentence in Chapter 1 will no longer be a plain text. So I no longer can use the find dialog box to search for "ODU" because it is already an xref rather than text. I am not if it's clear.

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Russ Ward
Legend
March 5, 2015

dragonwave, you can't search within cross-reference text. It would be difficult to do this even with scripting.

I can't think of any good reason you would want to do this, since FM controls this text during xref updates. What is your use case? That is, what is your goal? Perhaps there is another way to achieve it.

Russ

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