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2 For Set, choose the desired set.
3 For Action, choose the desired action.
4 For Source, choose an option:
Folder to play an action on files (including subfolders) already stored on your computer.
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Click Choose to specify a folder. Select Override Action "Open" Commands to open the
files from the specified folder. (Any Open commands recorded as part of the original
action are ignored.) Select Include All Subdirectories to process all files and folders
within the specified folder.
Data Sets to play an action once for each data set in the current file. (See
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sets" on page 290 and
5 For Destination, choose an option:
None to leave the files open without saving changes (unless the action included a Save
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command).
Save and Close to save the files in their current location. This option is only available if
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you chose Folder for Source.
Folder to save the altered files to another location. Click Choose to specify the desti-
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nation folder. This option is only available if you chose Folder for Source.
Saving files using the Batch command options always saves the files in the same
format as the original files. To create a batch process that saves files in a new format,
record the Save As or Save a Copy command, followed by the Close command, as part of
your original action. Then choose None for the Destination when setting up the batch
process.
6 If the action contains any save or export commands, set override options:
Override Action "Save" Commands to save the processed files in the specified desti-
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nation folder and not to a location recorded in the action. Click Choose to specify the
destination folder.
Override Action "Export" Commands to export the processed files to the specified desti-
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nation folder and not to a location recorded in the action. Click Choose to specify the
destination folder.
7 If you chose Data Sets for Source, select option for generating file names when
overriding save and export commands:
File + Number to generate the file name by taking the original document's file name,
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removing any extension, and then appending a three digit number corresponding to
the data set.
File + Data Set Name to generate the file name by taking the original document's file
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name, removing any extension, and then appending an underscore and the name of
the data set.
Data Set Name to generate the file name by taking the name of the data set.
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8 For Errors, choose an option:
Stop for Errors to suspend the batch process until you confirm the error message.
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