You can do it from within FrameMaker, but not all in one step. Simply
create your variable and then copy your variable to the clipboard. Then
use Find/Change. Enter the text you want to replace in the Find section
and choose "By Pasting" in the Change section. The paste function will
create the variable and substitute it for the text in any other
documents that you paste into. So you only have to create and copy the
variable once.
If you have a lot of terms to convert, this could take a while. So you
might want to use FrameScript or ExtendScript to create a script to do
it for you.
Mike Wickham
On 6/28/2013 2:44 PM, Christenson, Pat wrote:
Is there a plugin that allows you to convert text to a variable?
We have a long list of terms that correspond to existing variables in
numerous documents. If we can convert the text to variables (without
manually redefining each one), it would really speed things up.
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