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In this video tutorial I'm going to teach you how to work with variables in Adobe Framemaker 9. Variables allow you to reuse short strings of text through out your topics. Phrases and keywords make especially good variables because they end up being used in so many different places. Consider the sample documents seen here. I have a User Variable used inside the header and it reads, ÒMicrosoft Word 2003.Ó This a full product name. I also have a shorter product name for Word and that's used in a couple different places inside my file, however it's not used consistently. In some instances when I click inside the phrase, Word all I get is an Insertion Point and in others it selects the entire phrase. This is because the phrase is actually a Variable. By choosing Special and then selecting Variables or by going in under the View Menu and choosing Pods and then selecting Variables. The Variables Pod is displayed at the bottom screen. I'm just going to scroll to the bottom. Here we can see the Product Name and the Product Name full. I'm going to update my document by deleting this phrase Word which was manually typed and instead clicking Product Name and choosing to insert it. I add a space and I'm going to do the same here, double-clicking to delete the manually typed phrase Word and then inserting my Product Name. Here I just double-click as a quick way to do so and I press spacebar. The benefit of this is that I can now consistently write the phrase through out all of my documentation and if I need to modify it from one source. Selecting the product name and instead clicking Edit displays my Add Edit Variable Tab, the definition of Word is automatically highlighted and I'm going to change that to Framemaker. When I make the Modification and I click Edit, through out my document I can see that Framemaker is now displayed where Word used to exist. There's one exception, near the top of the page I still see the text Microsoft Word 2003. That's because this Variable is not a product name. Scrolling through my Variables I can see that I also have a Product Name Full and when I click my definition reads, Microsoft Word 2003, which I changed to Adobe Framemaker Version 9.0. Once more I click Edit and this is now updated in the Header of the document as well. There's one more exception inside the document that I'd like to set up as a Variable that is not currently configured, that's the File Extension. Notice that in both cases the extension is DOC, so I'm going to create a New Variable. I double-click and delete the old text, inside my Add Edit Variable I'm going to come up with a new one called Product Extension and the definition for this is going to be FM for Framemaker. I add this and it's now an available variable that can be seen inside my Pod. So I double-click and it adds .FM, I change DOC by deleting it and putting in the Product Extension and again it's updated to .FM. By working with Variables you can create consistent phrases that are used through out your documents. This allows you to create one or more consistent pieces of information that you can update in a single file and if desired update through out an entire book and make sure that all of the content across all chapters is exactly the same.