Hi, Joan:
It's not clear if your "container" document has format definitions
whose names match *exactly* - spelling and case - those in the
imported document.
If the files you want to import don't have matching format names,
then "Reformat Using Current
Document's Formats" retains the format and name of the imported file
or text flow, but the name doesn't appear in the paragraph or
character format catalog. If the appearance of the inset's text
resembles the appearance of the container file's text, then you won't
see a difference.
To determine what's going on, double click the imported inset and
choose "Convert to Text," then click into its text, and observe the
format at the insertion point by checking the "tag information area"
- the leftmost section of the status bar at the bottom of the
document window. NOTE: In recent releases of FM, the paragraph format
information in the formatting bar, below the document's menu bar, is
known to be unreliable, but the tag information area is ALWAYS
reliable.
If the names don't match exactly, you won't get the results you expect.
You can test what's happening by making the source's visual quality
distinctly different from the container document, such as changing
the text color of a paragraph format in the inset's source file. If
you retain source's formats, the new color should appear in the
imported inset; if you choose to reformat the import using current
document's formats, the new color should not appear.
If the paragraph or character formats in the imported inset appear
with a prefixed asterisk, such as *headingWhatever, you can add them
to the current file. One method is with File > Import > Formats, but
this often leads to importing more formats than you need, or
overwriting existing format definitions with the imported definitions.
One way to avoid this is to create a new file that contains only the
definitions you want to import, and import from it. Another way is to
search Google for cleanimport framemaker, for an inexpensive plug-in
that imports very selectively.
HTH
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Regards,
Peter Gold
KnowHow ProServices
Text Insets take on formatting of source document ALWAYS!
Has anyone noticed that unless you choose plain text, the imported text
inset will have the formatting of the document that you are importing FROM
and not the one into which the text inset is going?
I'm sure it used to work in Frame 6. Wow, it sure makes my life difficult!!
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