Working with Fixed Headers and Footers That Rarely Change

If you plan to use headers or footers in your document that might change, but you don’t need to change them often, user variables are the perfect solution. These variables fall under the category of medium-strength variables. You might have already had an encounter with these odd blocks of text and are not sure what to do with them, or you might just be getting ready to create one. Whatever the case, user variables save you time if you work with multiple-master page documents or if you are using one FrameMaker template for different documents.

The idea behind user variables is to create text that will be used in several locations of your document. Locations can include, but are not limited ...

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