Howard Rauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Frame Files to Excel To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
I have a client who has a pretty hot fire. I need to find a way to convert about 50 tables developed in FrameMaker to Excel spreadsheets. Does anyone have any suggestions? >From Oran Petersen Ans: I just opened a Frame file with 18 tables spanning 26 pages. I drag-selected the heading rows, which grabbed all of the body cells as well, did a standard copy, opened Excel, and pasted. I got a spreadsheet with each table column in an Excel column. Worked perfectly, took seconds. The caveat is that the Frame tables are considerably more capable than the Excel spreadsheet with respect to straddle and multiple paragraphs in one cell. Even those converted directly into Excel quite nicely within the limits of Excel. The issue is that multiple paragraphs in other than the left cell are pushed to the left cell, misaligning the data. This happens regardless of the format that you use (Frame, text, etc.) to build the spreadsheet. But if you have clean tables without straddles or multiple paragraphs per cell, copy/paste should work fine. I used Frame 7.1 and Excel 2003 for the test. Oran _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
