How to copy one para format into another para format

Framemaker 2019 - I believe I have discovered at least one bug in the MINI-TOC feature.

If you delete the auto-generated Mini-TOC - and then, manually delete the MTOC paragraphs from the Paragraph Catalog - and save everything - then Refresh the Para Catlog. The ~MTOC paragraphs STILL display in the Paragraph Catalog and are checked - as if they are being used - even though I deleted the MTOC. If you search for them, they are reported as Not Found.

The existing answers all talk about moving paragraph formats between files, which is not what you're trying to do. You want to apply parameters of one paragraph format to another format. This is how I do it:

1. Write down the names of the three formats you'd like to update.
2. Delete these three formats from the format catalog. Existing paragraphs using these formats now become irregular (*).
3. Open the paragraph designer and display the source format of which you want to take the parameters (LTTopicList).
4. While displaying this format in paragraph designer, enter the name of the first target format in the paragraph designer and click Apply.

This creates a new paragraph format, using the parameters from the source format. Now repeat this action twice, each time entering the next one of the three target format names. In the end you've got four copies of the same format, with the required names. Afterwards you can update them all to take over the new parameter sets.

Bernd

Here is the process I generally use:

1) Format my styles as desired and save the document.

2) Save a temporary copy of the document.

3) Delete all of the paragraph formats in the temporary document except for the three (or however many).

4) Open your target document or book. If it is a book, select the components you want to target.

5) Choose File > Import > Formats. Choose the temporary document, uncheck everything except Paragraph Formats, and click Import.

Hi,

You can just copy and paste the three paragraph formats. You have full control and you do not have to think what you might overwrite. That's probably the easiest here:

In your file with the correct formats:

Select the paragraph with the correct format. Right-click to open the context menu. Click on Copy Special and then Copy Paragraph Format.

In your file with the incorrect format:

Click in the paragraph with the incorrect format. Press CTRL+V to paste the paragraph format. Then open the paragraph designer and click Update Style, so that not only the selected paragraph has the correct format, but that all paragraphs with this format are updated.

Repeat this for the other two paragraph formats.

Best regards

Winfried