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Product rebranding, any tips? 2
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I suppose the best way, especially if you have to do this again, is to set up your product name as a user variable. This will mean having to go through all your docs once, but you won't have to do it again. Then if your product name changes again, all you have to do is alter the variable and everything will change automatically.
If sunflower oil comes from sunflowers, and vegetable oil comes from vegetables, where does baby oil come from?
If sunflower oil comes from sunflowers, and vegetable oil comes from vegetables, where does baby oil come from?
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Yes, from the Special > Variable menu select the definition you want to change and just change the text in the Definition field. Click the change button, and that should change all instances of the variable in the document.
If sunflower oil comes from sunflowers, and vegetable oil comes from vegetables, where does baby oil come from?
If sunflower oil comes from sunflowers, and vegetable oil comes from vegetables, where does baby oil come from?
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Just update the variables in one document and import them into all the other files in the book.
If you only want to update one user variable, save a copy of a file, update that one variable, and delete all the others in the file. Then import variables from that file into all the files in the book.
When you import variables, you import system and user variables. You can't delete system variables, so if you don't want to import them in all the files of the book, you can create a MIF snippet that contains only the single variable definition for the one that you want to update. Then you can import variables from that MIF snippet into all the files in the book.
Rick Henkel
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If you only want to update one user variable, save a copy of a file, update that one variable, and delete all the others in the file. Then import variables from that file into all the files in the book.
When you import variables, you import system and user variables. You can't delete system variables, so if you don't want to import them in all the files of the book, you can create a MIF snippet that contains only the single variable definition for the one that you want to update. Then you can import variables from that MIF snippet into all the files in the book.
Rick Henkel
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In case you haven't figured it out yet . . .
Open both documents.
In document A, update the variables.
In document B, open the File menu, point to Import, and click Formats.
Select only the Variables check box.
Select document A in the list of documents to import formats from.
Click Import.
I don't have Frame open here at home, so this is from memory. But I think I'm pretty close on the commands.
Rick Henkel
Senior Systems Developer
Open both documents.
In document A, update the variables.
In document B, open the File menu, point to Import, and click Formats.
Select only the Variables check box.
Select document A in the list of documents to import formats from.
Click Import.
I don't have Frame open here at home, so this is from memory. But I think I'm pretty close on the commands.
Rick Henkel
Senior Systems Developer
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jfgthomassen
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I do not want to advertise...., alright, I will not, but a certain heavy duty Macintosh text/HTML/anything you want -editor ((and perhaps (though not likely) some other platform tools as well)), can search and replace words in several documents in one step... so if you want to change the word 'Orange' in 50 documents (and correct me if I am wrong but the document format does not matter), this can be done in seconds time.
Good luck!
Good luck!
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