Selecting non-contiguous text

[spinsterweaver]

Is there a way to select non-contiguous text? I have 200 pages to go of style reassignment on an imported document and would like an easier way than selecting and changing styles one block at a time. Suggestions?

janet

[spinsterweaver]

I should probably have added that I suspect this is going to be another of those tomayto/tomahto questions that I'll be asking while I learn the language of this software. Forgive me while I stumble about.

[LTinker68]

Nope. However, if you have the Styles pane visible, you can place your cursor anywhere in a block of text and click on a style in the Style pane to apply that style to the block. (DO NOT select any text in the block -- if you do, you'll apply a span tag instead.) So you don't lose all that much, speed-wise, unless you have a long list of styles you have to scroll through every time.

There's also a quick style picker you can bring up by pressing Ctrl+Shift+H. When it comes up, enter the tag, period, then beginning of the class name. (For generic classes, press the period first.) I think I'd still be faster with the Styles pane, personally.

You can submit a feature request at http://www.madcapsoftware.com/bugs/submit.aspx asking for the ability to select contiguous or non-contiguous blocks of text using the tag blocks in the XML Editor.

[spinsterweaver]

I was afraid you were going to say that. There are a lot of styles to scroll thru and Flare keeps telling me that they are inherited, so I can't delete them. So I'm off to fill out that feature request. Thanks for getting back.

janet

[NorthEast]

I was afraid you were going to say that. There are a lot of styles to scroll thru and Flare keeps telling me that they are inherited, so I can't delete them. So I'm off to fill out that feature request. Thanks for getting back.

janet

You can hide styles that you don't use - see:
http://webhelp.madcapsoftware.com/flare ... Styles.htm

[Andrew]

Have you considered a Find / Replace in code? That would enable you to find and replace styles in the code all at once (assuming you are doing something like replacing all of Style A with Style B).