Thank YOU, Karen, for reminding me I'm not alone with this problem...and of the joys of plain-text posts. On the former, perhaps Megha can help us still. On the latter, I should have remembered the pitfalls when I included the table. I'll try to tap some old typewriter tabulation skills and give this another shot:
I'm running into a seemingly strange phenomenon with FM 9. I'm working with a lot of legacy documents that have formatting issues, and part of my workflow involves importing and replacing formats using a template formatted the way I wish it to be -- typically, with the very useful CleanImport plug-in. In FM 9, I'm finding that when I do this import, I now get the unexpected side effect that the symbol used in the Autonumber Format area of the Paragraph Designer changes. For example: Original Unintentionally Format Font Modified Format Font ð\t Wingdings š\t Wingdings à\t Wingdings ‡\t Wingdings I'm not sure how or why this changes. I have developed a workaround. I go to my source document, do a Global Update, Numbering Properties, for each of the paragraph formats in question, applying this to all paragraphs in the source document that have the individual tags in question. I am not changing the formats in any way, simply re-applying them. Then I re-import the paragraph and character formats to all of the remaining files, and then the paragraphs with these various "list bullets," for want of a better term, are all restored to normalcy. So it's not the end of the world, just an unwelcome extra step. Any ideas? Jim -----Original Message----- From: Karen Mann [mailto:km...@i-t-tech.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 11:26 AM To: Pinkham, Jim; framers@lists.frameusers.com; Megha Chaitanya Subject: RE: Of Autonumbers, "Symbols," and FM 9 Thanks Jim, I had the same issue, legacy, importing etc but with the bullet and symbol. When I applied the bullet tag my text went to Greek and the bullet symbol was another symbol. Ugh! I left out a step so when Megha tried to assist she could not. Sorry Megha, I had so many deadlines and FM9 bugs were bouncing all over me. In Paragraph Designer autonumber I highlighted the bullet, went to Character map got the bullet, went to Character Designer sized the bullet and did Global update, then did a global apply. Have been doing this for all docs. I did not do a re-import. We do 99% legacy and they are very individual so most of the time a template import is not effective. I however do not have the CleanImport plug-in. This "Framers" thing is the greatest! Thanks all. Karen M Not an expert... -----Original Message----- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Pinkham, Jim Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 10:44 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Of Autonumbers, "Symbols," and FM 9 I'm running into a seemingly strange phenomenon with FM 9. I'm working with a lot of legacy documents that have formatting issues, and part of my workflow involves importing and replacing formats using a template formatted the way I wish it to be -- typically, with the very useful CleanImport plug-in. In FM 9, I'm finding that when I do this import, I now get the unexpected side effect that the symbol used in the Autonumber Format area of the Paragraph Designer changes. For example: Original Format Font Unintentionally Modified Format Font ð\t Wingdings š\t Wingdings à\t Wingdings ‡\t Wingdings I'm not sure how or why this changes. I have developed a workaround. I go to my source document, do a Global Update, Numbering Properties, for each of the paragraph formats in question, applying this to all paragraphs in the source document that have the individual tags in question. I am not changing the formats in any way, simply re-applying them. Then I re-import the paragraph and character formats to all of the remaining files, and then the paragraphs with these various "list bullets," for want of a better term, are all restored to normalcy. So it's not the end of the world, just an unwelcome extra step. Any ideas? Jim _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as km...@i-t-tech.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/kmann%40i-t-tech.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.