Deleting Conditions

[Z__Bulova]

Hello Forum Experts,

I am having some trouble removing conditions.

I was able to delete the conditions from each FM file, such that they no longer appear when I open the Special-->Manage Condition dialog and the Special-->Show/Hide Conditional Text dialog.

But the pesky conditions still appear when I open the View-->Show/Hide Conditional Text dialog from the book file. Meanwhile, no menu options to delete conditions are available from the book file.

So, it is a conundrum. If anyone could advise, I would certainly appreciate it. Thank you in advance for your ideas.

Z.

[_Van_Kurtz_]

Z,

I have noticed that the book file contains some information that is not always consistent with the documents in the book, and conditions is one of them. When the book was created, it recorded the conditions in the documents in the book. Then after you delete the conditions in all the files in the book and update the book, some of these conditions remain in the book. I do not know how Frame decides or not which ones to keep. I have not found a way to delete the conditions from the book file. If you save the book file in the MIF format and remove the conditions from the MIF file, Frame will not let you save the MIF file as a book file, which seems odd since this two-way street exists for regular document files.

SO, I do not worry about the problem, as long as the document files contain only the required conditions. I just try to ignore the others in the book file and keep them always hidden.

Hope this helps,
Van

[Guest]

Van

I just ran into the same problem and your post gave me the clue I needed to solve it.

I deleted all the conditional tags from all the chapter files. Then I created a brand new book file, and dragged all the chapter files from the old book file into the new one. Now I have a book without all those annoying leftover tags.

thanks,

Cheryl

[Van Kurtz]

Cheryl,

Just a small change to my original post in which I stated that one cannot save a book mif file as an fm book file. That is not true. I have since discovered that one can save the fm book file as a mif file, and then edit it. When you save back to an fm book file, the file name displays in the Save As dialog as file_nam.mif. You need to DELETE the .mif from the file name and then save as an fm book.

So, you can either edit the book mif file to remove the conditions, or create a new book file as you did...whichever is more comfortable for you to do.

Van