Time and again, I open a new document set from the libraries I've inherited and start basic tidying up … experience has amply demonstrated that it's worth using a variable for each library's product name, for one thing, but it doesn't quite work as I'd hope.define $product as requiredreplace first instance of Acme Eradicator with $product, and copy the variable to the clipboarduse find/change with Acme Eradicator as Find and By pasting for ChangeEvery occurrence of the string Acme Eradicator is duly replaced by the variable, but with the formatting of whatever context the first occurrence of the variable was copied fromIs there any nifty trick I can use to make to the pasted variable take on, chameleon-like, the formatting of its new surroundings?

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Time and again, I open a new document set from the libraries I've inherited and start basic tidying up … experience has amply demonstrated that it's worth using a variable for each library's product name, for one thing, but it doesn't quite work as I'd hope.

define $product as required
replace first instance of Acme Eradicator with $product, and copy the variable to the clipboard
use find/change with Acme Eradicator as Find and By pasting for Change

Every occurrence of the string Acme Eradicator is duly replaced by the variable, but with the formatting of whatever context the first occurrence of the variable was copied from

Is there any nifty trick I can use to make to the pasted variable take on, chameleon-like, the formatting of its new surroundings?

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Matt-Tech Comm Tools

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IIRC, when I do this, I then reimport my template to remove formatting overrides.

You can also apply default font to each individual instance using the character catalog.

-Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant

Arnis Gubins

Inspiring

It sounds like the first instance had some formatting attributes applied when you copied it. In Most circumstances, the only the variable should be inserted and it will take on the local formatting in the paragraph context.

You could try adding the default paragraph format character as the first entry of the variable, e.g. use </> as the short form for this.

$product defined as "</>Acme Eradicatior"

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