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Mar 9, 2020 2:20 PM UTC
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When using Find and Change, the font is changed.

Hi,

 

I have a document where all body text is in Arial 9. I was trying to find all occurrences of a word and change it to something else. But as I pressed Change, the font switched to Arial 12. Very annoying, Why does it do that and how can I prevent it? I am using Framemaker 12 I think.

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    Known Participant
    Mar 9, 2020 3:18 PM UTC

    Made a screen recording of the issue:

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/vkley8szebhvvfb/Change_and_find.mp4?dl=0 

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    frameexpert
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    Mar 9, 2020 3:39 PM UTC

    Thanks for the video. Based on what I see, I am not sure what is going on. I would like to see the document to know for sure.

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    Mar 9, 2020 2:42 PM UTC

    Hi,

     

    Did you just change to other text?

    Or did you select By Pasting? Then the formatting of the text which you had copied is used. This could be Arial 12 pt.

     

    Best regards

     

    Winfried

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    Known Participant
    Mar 9, 2020 2:47 PM UTC

    I used Change To Text.

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    Community Expert
    Mar 9, 2020 3:03 PM UTC

    What was your search text and what's the replacement text?

    When you search for text across paragraphs (with wildcards and \p or \P), it could be that the formatting of a paragraph before or after the searched text would be applied.

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    frameexpert
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    Mar 9, 2020 2:29 PM UTC

    My guess is that the target paragraph has an override on it to make it 9 pt. When the text is changed, it is using the base paragraph formatting, which is 12 pt.

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    Known Participant
    Mar 9, 2020 2:47 PM UTC

    How do I change the base paragraph format? I thought it would be enough that I have configured the settings for the format in the Paragraph designer? 

     
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    Mar 9, 2020 2:55 PM UTC

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