Save the Frame file, either intact or just the table fragments, as RTF and open in in Excel? You'd also have a path by PDFing it and saving the PDF out as RTF...
Art On Jan 18, 2008 11:29 AM, Petersen, Oran C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > > -- Art Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358 _______________________________________________ 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.
