Re: finding text marked as crossreference

["Thomas Michanek" <thomas.michanek@xxxxxxxxx>]

From: Cupps, Cathy D <cathy.cupps@eds.com>

>I am trying to do a search for text marked as a cross-reference. I don't
>want to find the source of the cross reference just the text that is marked
>through edit/find. I called Adobe but they were unable to help. Maybe the
>capability doesn't exist. Does anyone know?

I guess you mean finding text within a cross-reference instance, such as
the word "Text" in the x-ref "see 'Whatever Text in a Heading' on page 99"?
No, this cannot be done by the search function built into FM.

You would have to use one of the following methods:
* temporarily converting all cross-refs to text and search the resulting
  document (double-click an x-ref, Convert to Text, All cross-references)
* write a FrameScript (if you have FrameScript)
* use a 3rd-party plug-in (if there is one; I don't know any)
* save to MIF and search all <String> statements in the document body
  (on UNIX: sed -n "/<TextFlow/,$ p" file.mif | egrep '<String .*text')

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