FrameMaker 6: Beyond the Basics

Cleaning Out the Catalogs

You made it to the final step of cleaning up your imported Word document. By now, the Paragraph and Character catalogs have accumulated a massive amount of unneeded tags that came over from Word. Trying to weed out the odd ones is a tedious task.

Here’s an quick way to clean out the catalogs:

1.	Open a clean FrameMaker template, exactly the same as used in your current document.
2.	Go to the current document (the one with the messy catalogs). Delete all tags from both the Character and Paragraph catalogs.
3.	Use File > Import > Formats to import the paragraph and character formats from the original FrameMaker template. The Paragraph and Character catalogs display a clean set of tags.

Tip

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