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I would like to create conditional text that changes the color of a block of text rather than showing or hiding the text. In other words, when I send the document to colleagues ABC, I want selected text to be in blue, but when I send it to colleagues XYZ, I want the text to be black like the rest of the document. Is this possible? Thanks in advance for any help!

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Janelle
This is very easy to do.
1. Open a Frame Practice File
2. Go to the Menu Bar and Select "SPECIAL" - "CONDITIONAL TEXT"
3. Select "Edit Condition Tag"
4. In the next screen you can type a new name for the tag, select the color you want and the style.
  I would probably just select "As Is" for the style.
5. Click the "Set" Button.
6. You should now be back on the main screen
7. Select some text and click the arrow button to move it to the left part of the pane and click
  apply.

Hope the above answers your question. If you just "play" around with the setting, I think you will learn what to do also. There is also some good help in their help files. Just select "HELP" on the   Menu bar.
If you need more help email me and I can send you a short instruction guide.
email is: waynejohnson2@comcast.net
Be sure to put Framemaker in the subject area of the tes.

Regards, Wayne

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Basic set-up of books, master pages, generation of List of Effective pages (LEP), Indexing, auto-numbering. Various ways to import graphics, including advantages and disadvantages of importing into a text frame or importing into a "blank" page. Using a "book" to generate PDF files, with hyperlinking. Customization of function keys, currently setup for Frame 7.0 i.e. change F1 to turn "Change bar" On and Off, F2 to "Cut" a selection, F3 to copy, F4 to Paste, F6 to set line to "TOP OF PAGE" and Shift F6 to start line "anywhere" these can be easily your current config files and if you do not like them - old config files can be restored. I have no expertise in Structured Framemaker, (i.e. XML or SGML).

Experience

10 years working with Framemaker, all version through Version 7.0
Primarily writing to Aviation ATA spec 100. Currently responsible for maintaining all company published maintenance documents in Framemaker and PDF and making them accessible through the company intranet.

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