RE: Character Tag Instructions Correct?

[Thomas Neuburger <thomasn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nice one, Mike.

One caveat -- if your Find tag has been applied to text with different 
underlying paragraph formatting, this won't work (for example, if Red was 
applied both to Body paras in Palatino and Note paras in Helvetica).

But if you're careful to use this technique with similar paragraphs, it 
works just fine.

Cheers,

Tom


Mike Hiatt wrote:

>Ah, but there is a way to search and replace and revert the character tag 
>back to the default state.
>
>1-Open the Find/Change dialog box
>2-In the Find drop-down menu select Character Tag:
>3-In the text field for the search enter the name of the tag that shows 
>when you click in the affected text
>         For example, if you have text with Emphasis and Red applied so 
> that Red shows in the status bar at the bottom of the    document window, 
> use the listed Character Tag (Red in this instance) for your search
>4-Select some text with your default paragraph characteristics
>5-Right mouse click and select Copy Special
>5-Select Character Format
>6-From the Change drop-down menu select By Pasting:
>7-Click Find and you should go to the first instance of your selected 
>Character Tag: (Red in this instance.)
>8-Click Change and the character tags are removed
>
>I would be very hesitant to use Change All since you will not want see 
>every location where the formatting was removed.
>
>Mike Hiatt
>Manager, Tech Pubs
>VocalData, Inc.
>Dallas, TX (yep, that one)
>mailto:mhiatt@vocaldata.com
>www.vocaldata.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Thomas Neuburger [mailto:thomasn@twelfthnight.com]
>Subject: Re: Character Tag Instructions Correct?
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I have to agree with Rebecca. The Default Para Font item on the catalog
>isn't a tag (note that it's not deletable from the list) but a command that
>removes character tags.
>
>In a sense the contractor is right, depending, of course, of how s/he meant
>the quoted statement. Applying change bars with a character tag, for
>example, is one of the ways to manually manage change bars -- and a real
>trap, since removal of the tag is a bear. To remove a character tag you
>don't like, you have to search for the each instance, then click Default
>Para Font -- there's no Replace item that kills the tag and restores the
>underlying para formatting.
   


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