Easiest way to find & replace fonts?

[_Renee_Z_]

I need to replace a font in my document w/Arial, and I don't know the easiest way to go about it.

For some reason I assumed there was a simple "Find & Replace" method, like in InDesign or Quark, but I can't seem to find it.

I've tried the "Find/Change" > "Character Format" tool, but it doesn't seem to work...Any suggestions?

[Art Campbell]

Use the Paragraph Designer to make the change at the tag level by specifying Arial instead of whatever is in use.

If you have a number of tags, you can select them all in the document and then use a global command in the Para Designer to apply the new font to all selected tags.

If you have a book, once you've got a chapter set up, import the updated formats too all chapters by selecting them in the book file and Importing Formats to them with the edited chapter as your source.

Art

[_Renee_Z_]

Thanks! Yeah, I've done this on each Paragraph Style, but it looks like there are some leftover chunks of text that either weren't styled or are haven't updated, because when I run an index of font references it's still picking up instances the old font.

[_Johannes_Krueger_]

Maybe you forgot to set all unused format options to "as is"?

Another reason could be how you specified the replacement format. You can either apply a new direct formatting, or apply a certain character tag (using Edit > Copy Special to capture the replacement character tag from the current selection, and the 'Paste' option in the Find/Change dialog).

[_Renee_Z_]

Thanks...I'll try that out! :)

[PulkitJ]

Adobe has introduced Fonts pod in FrameMaker 9 using which you can easily replace Fonts in your document.