Thanks Sharon,Ok, I have done it and it works ... ... almost completely.
I am having the same problem with the character style that I had with Roger_Shuttleworth's suggestion that I Find+Apply the text string with my desired character style. Namely, I can;t get the attributes of my style to stay as "As Is" and so when I apply the style it does not just apply the italic, which is what I want, but it applies all the specific style attributes of the style. Thanks, avi On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Sharon Burton <sharon at anthrobytes.com>wrote: > 1. Create a new character style with the attributes you want. Call it > TextItalics, for example. > 2. Create a variable. Call it CompanyName. > 3. Define the variable with the name of the product, using the new > character > format, as needed. > 4. Replace an instance of the current product name text with the > CompanyName > variable you create. > 5. Select the variable. Press Ctrl+c. The variable is copied into the > buffer. > 6. Open the Find/Replace. > 7. Type the text you want to find - in this case, it's the name of the > company. > 8. In the Replace area, select Copy from Clipboard. > 9. Click Find Next. > 10. Click Replace. Click Find Next. > 11. Rinse and repeat until all text company names have been replaced with > your variable. > (This is all from memory, so parts may be slightly wrong) > > The advantage to this is that when they change the company name again - and > they will - you change the value of the CompanyName variable and it's > changed through out the file. Import that variable into all other documents > and you're done. > > Do this for the product name as well, because if they are changing the > company name, they'll change the product name. Usually at the last second. > > > sharon > > Sharon Burton > MadCap Software Product Consultant > Managing your content, one topic at a time > www.anthrobytes.com > 951-369-8590 > IM: sharonvburton at yahoo.com > Twitter: sharonburton > > > -----Original Message----- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Avraham Makeler > Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:00 AM > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Re: Find <text> Apply <tag> > > It works. I thought I already tried this but it didn't work before. > The guys on this forum obviously have "green fingers"... > > Just one small problem though... I used the Emphasis character style. I > tried to apply "As is" to all the formatting of Emphasis, and then to set > it > to italics, but it didn't "stick". So when I then applied the Emphasis > style > to a title, for example, it changed the font of the word Acme to whatever > size and color Emphasis is, which in my case, is italicized body text. > > >> As for applying italics without a character format, I think most would > agree that this is a Bad Thing. > > I agree that this is not professional, but if I do it this way then at > least > I don't get the problem I get when I use a character style (Emphasis) > above. > > Thanks, > > avi > > > > >