Re: Word Tables to Frame 12Tables

Thu, 19 Jun 2014 09:10:41 -0700

You can open each Word file in Frame, then search for each table and apply "No Shading" and set all ruling to "From Table" to get rid of any custom ruling and all shading.

To automate finding tables and applying ruling and shading, install AutoIt and run the script below. (It has to be saved in a text file an .AU3 extension.)  
Shmuel Wolfson
052-763-7133


; This script applies the currently defined custom ruling and shading 
; to one or more table cells. 
; Before running the script, find "Any Table" and apply the desired 
; ruling and shading once.
; Works for FM11. May need minor changes for other versions.

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2) ; matches anywhere in the title
Opt("TrayIconDebug", 1)
Dim $max
Dim $x = 1

$max = InputBox("","How many tables?","10")
WinActivate(".fm")
WinWaitActive(".fm")

While $x <= $max
	Sleep(500) ; wait a 1/2 second
	Send("!tf{DOWN 3}{ENTER}"); opens Custom Ruling and Shading - 
                                  ; !tfs didn't work
	Sleep(500) ; wait a 1/2 second
	Send("!a") ; apply ruling and shading
	Sleep(500) ; wait a 1/2 second
	Send("^+f") ; find the next table
	$x = $x + 1
WEnd
----  On 18-Jun-14 10:05 PM, Winberg, Harold wrote:

We have 11 books and maybe 160 tables.

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Fred Ridder
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 2:26 PM
To: Lin Sims; Robert Lauriston
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Word Tables to Frame 12Tables

 

Yes, TableCleaner is absolutely indispensable when you're importing complete Word documents that contain tables into FrameMaker. I couldn't do without it.

But for bringing in a single table (which I believe was the original query), I'll stick with the convert-to-text-before-copying method. In my experience it is quicker to apply clean formatting to the cells of one table that was built from pasted plain text than to fix all the Word-ness of a table that was pulled in as a table even if you have a tool that does most of the work.

-Fred Ridder

Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 13:02:42 -0400
Subject: Re: Word Tables to Frame 12Tables
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]

And don't forget Rick Quattro's excellent TableCleaner plugin, which can help make cleaning up Word tables ever so much easier.

 

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Robert Lauriston <[email protected]> wrote:

Second on that approach.


On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Fred Ridder <[email protected]> wrote:
> Because the Word and FrameMaker table models are fundamentally so different,
> I find that it is best to only import the content and nothing relating to
> the "tableness".  From Word, first use the convert table to text command,
> then copy the tab-separated table contents. Paste the text into Frame and
> then use convert the table to text command to create a table with the
> appropriate table format applied.

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