Jeez, now you're going to test my memory, because most of the conversion work I did was more than five years ago when I migrated our pubs group from Word to FrameMaker as our standard tool.
Our docs were all in Word 95, which meant the macros were written in Word Basic rather than Visual Basic for Applications, which I am much less familiar with. I had a flock of separate small macros that each did relatively simple operations like: - removing manual page breaks - removing empty paragraphs - searching for paragraph styles that were not part of the standard template - searching for manually applied character formatting (i.e. not using our template's defined character styles) - removing all autonumbering (done by SEQ codes in Word) - dealing with annotations, hidden text, and other background content - replacing linked graphics with placeholders that identified the source file - removing irrelevant field codes (including *lots* of empty index entry fields) - deleting the Word TOC, LOT, LOF, and index Then I had a couple of more complex macros that did things like renaming all the Word styles to the new names that were defined in the FrameMaker templates, and converting some of the "fancy" stuff we had done on our API reference pages from the Word implementation to a FrameMaker way of doing things. The final macro burst the monolithic Word docs into a series of separate files on chapter boundaries. The end result was a set of small, clean files that could be imported into the FrameMaker templates with a minimum of muss and fuss. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Anne Robotti Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 9:13 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Converting Word doc to Frame > I've converted thousands of pages using only Word (with macros > to do a bunch of clean-up pre conversion) and FrameMaker. Fred, could you elaborate on these macros? What do they do, and how do they work? Thanks, Anne
