On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:43:46 -0700, Alison Craig <Alison.Craig at ultrasonix.com> wrote:
>As a novice Frame user, I am currently doing the same thing (taking a 350 page >Word manual and moving to FrameMaker 9). > >As a long time, highly skilled Word user, I know from experience that there is >a mountain of invisible crap in the Word doc - so my best advice is to not >import the Word document at all! > >Instead, save the Word doc as a text file, open the text file in something >like Notepad, then copy in the plain text and completely reformat the Frame >doc from scratch. This may be more work in the short term, but you'll create a >better template and avoid any hassles that importing Word files could cause >down the road. > >Yes, this means you have to deal with everything (graphics, master pages, etc) >from scratch. But it also gives you the chance to begin your Frame career with >a "best practices for FrameMaker" approach rather than a "I have to live with >Word-defined stuff even though I'm now working in Frame" approach. > >I have no doubt this is taking me longer, but I am more confident about the >results. +1!!! Alison is absolutely right. I couldn't say it better. Don't even consider using Frame's Word or RTF import. Bring in the content as plain text by Copy in Word and Paste Special>Text in Frame. You will be very glad you did. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <jeremy at omsys.com> http://www.omsys.com/
