Deleting paragraph tags that are in use is allowed in FM 9!

[kdeuler]

Has anyone besides me noticed that FM 9 allows you delete a paragraph tag in a document even though the paragraph tag is in use? I've found that the result of deleting the tag is that text with that tag is unaffected and even still has the deleted tag applied to it. However, the tag is no longer selectable from the paragraph tag list. FM8 would prompt would warn you that its in use before you attempt to delete it.

The above behavior is at least the case for documents that I've used that were originally created in FM 8. Anyway, this lack of warning makes it darn impossible to efficiently remove unused tags from a document.

Thanks.

-Kurt Euler

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

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[Be.eM]

kdeuler wrote:

Has anyone besides me noticed that FM 9 allows you delete a paragraph tag in a document even though the paragraph tag is in use? I've found that the result of deleting the tag is that text with that tag is unaffected and even still has the deleted tag applied to it. However, the tag is no longer selectable from the paragraph tag list. FM8 would prompt would warn you that its in use before you attempt to delete it.

Kurt,

I'm not sure why you think that FM8 has been different… it isn't. Every version of FM has always allowed to delete paragraph styles, no matter if they are used or not. Paragraphs using the (deleted) format are now shown with an asterisk, like an overidden format, while keeping all attributes.

This is why 3rd party vendors like ITL sell FrameScript scripts, which only delete unused styles and objects from documents.

Bernd

[Arnis Gubins]

Kurt,

As Bernd mentions, FM has *always* allowed you to delete items from catalogs, while still maintianing them (as overrides) in the current document.

You might want to have a look at some fo these third-party tools to do this more efficiently:

PgfWhopper from Cudspan at: http://www.cudspan.net/plugins/

ToolBox from Squidds at: http://www.squidds.de/en/products/squidds-produkte/toolbox-for-framemaker.html

Paragraph Tools and Character Tools from Silicon Prairie Software at: http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/Products.html