My personal suggestion would be this: -make a PDF of the Word document
-use Acrobat to crop the pages to remove the Word headers and footers and reduce the page size to something that will fit your FrameMaker body text frame -import the PDF pages as graphic objects in a FrameMaker template that has the required headers and footers I use a similar technique with FrameMaker files that contain landscapre-formatted tables that I need to use in a rotated orientationin a normal, portrait-oriented book. The only time this aproach does not work well is when the inserted document is still evolving because you would have to repeat the convert/crop/insert process. Fred Ridder >From: "J. Paul Kent" <jopakent at comcast.net> >To: "Framers" <framers at frameusers.com> >Subject: Text Inset? >Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:26:55 -0700 > >I've never used a text inset before, but I may be up against it. > >I need to include a heavily formatted (tables, single and double columns, >heading levels that make zero sense) 20 page Word document as an Appendix >to >an Operators Manual. It would have a standard Appendix title, header, >footer, etc, but otherwise it must appear as close as possible to the >existing document. > >I know I could convert the Word doc, but it would take time that we don't >have. I'm wondering what would happen if I used the Word doc as an inset >and >flowed it into a blank Appendix, set up with a title, header and footer. >When I select Word text, I see in the Paste Special options: Embedded MS >Word Object and Linked MS Word Object. Would one of these start me down the >right track? > >I'm pretty sure I can do without the headers and footers from the existing >doc. I wonder what would happen if I just select all of the text and then >Paste it into a blank Appendix? > >Sorry if these are obvious questions, but I need to NOT spend time >experimenting if I can help it. > >Thanks in advance. >J. Paul Kent >206-383-0539 >206-508-1144 _________________________________________________________________ http://liveearth.msn.com
