I always found it beneficial to leave behind as much of the Word
formatting as possible, and the best way to do that is to make the
Word style names match the FrameMaker tag names so that you
bring in only the tag name in addition to the content. > From: jennifer_randel
at khsd.k12.ca.us> To: docudoc at hotmail.com; gflato at nanometrics.com;
framers at frameusers.com> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:25:44 -0800> Subject: RE:
Word to Frame> > Hi all,> Wouldn't it be just as easy to use Silicon Prairie
Software's Paragraph Tools as it is to create that macro?> > ~Jennifer> >
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[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Fred Ridder>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 12:20 PM> To: Mike Feimster; Flato, Gillian;
Framers List> Subject: RE: Word to Frame> > > Responding to Gillian Flato, Mike
Feimster wrote:> > What I've done in the past is use word macros to make the
para styles> > in Word match the Frame styles, then import the word docs into
Frame.> > > That's exactly the same approach I used in converting ~10k pages of
Word docs (>50 docs) into FrameMaker at a previous employer.> > Just to amplify
on a few points, though:> > You really want to use File>Import>File (Copy Into
Document) to pull the Word content into a pre-formatted FrameMaker template
rather than directly opening the Word file from the FrameMaker File menu.
Besides the fact that the import filter somehow seems more robust in that mode,
you also have the opportunity to leave behind most of Word-specific formatting
junk by choosing the "Reformat Using Current Document's Formatting" option in
the Import Text Flow by Copy dialog.> > In the same macro that you use to
rename the Word paragraph styles, you should also redefine any styles that use
bullets or numbering to remove them. If bullets or autonumbers are present in
the Word file, FrameMaker does its best to preserve them and you'll get garbage
characters in the converted file.> > Other useful operations in prepping the
Word file are to remove any TOC, LOT, LOF, and index (since FrameMaker handles
them completely differently), strip any headers and footers (these will be
defined in your FrameMaker template) and remove any section breaks (meaningless
in Frame). In my own process, I also removed all graphics from the Word file
because they really slowed the conversion down and I knew we were going to
replace the pasted-in images with anchored frames and referenced graphics
post-conversion.> > -Fred Ridder>
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