Understanding Format Overrides

FrameMaker uses predefined formats for Paragraph, Character, and Table Designers, as well as page layouts. If you make a change to paragraph, character, or table formats, and use the Apply To button rather than the Update All button, you end up with a format override. Making changes to paragraph text using the formatting bar also causes this result. In the same way, if you change the column layout of a body page without first changing its corresponding master page layout, you end up with a format override for that body page. Format overrides are common and occur as a result of a change you made to a particular selection that no longer matches the predefined format.

Paragraph and character format overrides are indicated ...

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