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Subject:Re: What folks today don't know...! From:Lin Sims <ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com> To:William Sherman <bsherman77 -at- embarqmail -dot- com> Date:Wed, 6 Aug 2014 08:20:52 -0400
Open your Show/Hide Conditional Text pod and uncheck Show Condition
Indicators.
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:31 PM, William Sherman <bsherman77 -at- embarqmail -dot- com>
wrote:
> I was never crazy about conditional text in Frame, mainly because I never
> had a project that needed it, I think.
>
> But just recently, I have started to use it on a project with FrameMaker
> 10 and it seems to work much better than I remember in earlier versions.
> One thing I'm not crazy about is that the only way I have found to make it
> stand out is to have a condition have a color. But then, it prints in that
> color. There needed to be a way to highlight conditional text so you knew
> it was conditional without it having undesirable appearances in your
> document.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
> To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 11:29 AM
>
> Subject: Re: What folks today don't know...!
>
>
> The only thing I've never been able to find a solution for in Word that
>> fully satisfied me was conditional text. But I'm not all that thrilled
>> with conditional text in FrameMaker, either.
>>
>> Gene Kim-Eng
>>
>>
>
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