Thanks, Shmuel, but I don't see a PureText option in the Paste Special dialog box. The closest I can find is one labeled Text-but as I said, that one is *not* the equivalent as pasting into Notepad and then copying and pasting from there. That-the Text option-was the option we were using that introduced the problem.
Am I missing something here? Chuck ________________________________ From: Shmuel Wolfson [mailto:s...@actcom.com] Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 10:04 AM To: Beck, Charles Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Find not finding You can use PureText to paste the text in without formatting. It's faster than pasting into Notepad, and is the equivalent. -- Regards, Shmuel Wolfson Beck, Charles wrote: Hi Guy, OK, I checked with the writer in question, and he reported that what he did was a copy-and-paste operation. But, to avoid the selection coming in as an embedded Word object, he selected "Paste as Special" and then selected the "Text" option. He was under the impression that that would bring it in as plain (ASCII) text, but apparently not so. We are using Frame 7.0, so I can't say whether this same kind of problem still exists in later versions. I rather suspect it does, though. Because we have a site license for Mif2Go, our writer is downloading and trying Jeremy's "Wash Via MIF" plugin, even as we e-speak. Personally, I have always just copied from Word, pasted into a temporary Notepad doc, and then copied-and-pasted from there. That ensures that I get clean text, though it does necessitate retagging the text copied in. (However, since copying-and-pasting directly from Word usually necessitates paragraph retagging anyway, this does not add that much more to the process...) More time consuming, but safer, in my experience. I haven't tried Jeremy's plugin yet. HTH, Chuck -----Original Message----- From: Guy K. Haas [mailto:guy at cliveden.com] Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 3:48 PM To: Beck, Charles Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Find not finding Charles-- Might I ask how the original Word material was brought into FrameMaker? That is, was it opened with File>Open and thus filtered in through FrameMaker's own mechanisms? And was this all in the context of FrameMaker 7.2, or was an older version involved? Some of our team will be facing the Word->Frame conversion soon, and when I shared your info with them, they asked. --Thanks, Guy K. Haas Software Exegete in Silicon Valley Beck, Charles wrote: Hi again all, Just wanted to let you all know that I received several replies, including one with the correct remedy. Thought it might be of general interest to the rest of the group. The tip of the hat goes to Alan Houser who asked whether there was any imported MS Word content in the file. Apparently, Word content can include hidden control characters that can interfere with the Find function. That was the case with our problem. Saving as MIF and then reopening and saving as *.fm resolved the problem. ... Chuck _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as sbw at actcom.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sbw%40actcom.com Send administrative questions to lisa at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
