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Jeff_Coatsworth
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November 19, 2009
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Repeat Last Action?

  • November 19, 2009
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I'm fairly new to FM9 and am wondering if this feature exists already (and I just don't know about it). Coming from MS Word, it has a great "repeat last action" function hooked up to the F4 key. As I've been selecting text in FM and applying a character tag over & over again, I began to wonder if there was a faster way. I used to use the pod to begin with, but now have resorted to just right-clicking to navigate to the character tags. A "repeat last action" would be great in this case.

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Jeff_Coatsworth
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 19, 2009

This is great guys! This will really speed things up for

me.

Arnis Gubins
Inspiring
November 19, 2009

Jeff,

FM doesn't have a general repeat last action command, however, you can repeat specific commands.

esc j j = repeat last paragraph related command

esc c c = repeat last font-related (i.e. character tag) command

esc e e = repeat last element command

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November 19, 2009

Jeff_Coatsworth wrote:

I'm fairly new to FM9 and am wondering if this feature exists already (and I just don't know about it). Coming from MS Word, it has a great "repeat last action" function hooked up to the F4 key. As I've been selecting text in FM and applying a character tag over & over again, I began to wonder if there was a faster way. I used to use the pod to begin with, but now have resorted to just right-clicking to navigate to the character tags. A "repeat last action" would be great in this case.

Not quite, but useful for your request:

* Tap and release these keys in sequence:

- Escape c c (lowercase c) repeat last font command

- Escape j j (lowercase j) repeat last paragraph command

Searching Google for "framemaker repeat last paragraph format shortcut" without quotes finds this:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/9.0/Using/WSd817046a44e105e21e63e3d11ab7f7862b-7f70.html

HTH

Regards,

Peter

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