Second that. And to further elaborate: On Page 5 of that document, Tim Murray notes, "Frame could care less if a heading is named Heading 1 or Fred_Flintstone, so you don't really have to mess with Word's style names before the conversion unless you want to change the style names to match the target template." When I've used Tim's document, I did exactly that: I defined styles in Word that matched what I had and wanted in the Frame template. Then I styled the Word doc so that it had only the same-named styles as Frame and then did the import. BTW, Jack Lyon, over on the Editorium, has a Delete Unused Styles macro that's very helpful for getting rid of the detritus in a Word doc or template so that the Word doc you're importing into Frame with your File-Import command only has the limited set of styles that you want and need.
HTH, Jim ________________________________ From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Flato, Gillian Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 5:30 PM To: Yorke, Carl; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Converting Word doc to Frame. When I've done in the past, after prepping the file with Word2Frame.pdf, I have opened the Word file in Frame, letting Frame convert it. Then I go to a paragraph style, change it to what I want, and then do an update all in the paragraph designer. Thank you, Gillian Flato Senior Technical Writer (Software) nanometrics 1550 Buckeye Dr. Milpitas, CA. 95035 (408.545.6316 7 408.232.5911 * gflato at nanometrics.com <mailto:gflato at nanometrics.com> From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Yorke, Carl Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 3:21 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Converting Word doc to Frame. I know I've seen this on the board before, but I can't find it. I'm using Frame 9 on XP. I'm moving some big docs from Word to Frame. I did all the preparation from word2frame.pdf, but that doc never says how to actually import the Word doc into the file with the Frame template I've prepared. When I do bring the Word file over, everything marked Normal stays Normal. When I do a global update from Normal to Body, all the 'Normal' text becomes '*Body', but the font does not change to what I have for Body. Then I have to go through one paragraph at a time and assign Default Font. So what's the point of Global Update? Help? Thanks, Carl Yorke Documentation Manager ActiveVideo Networks, Inc. 333 W. San Carlos Street, Suite 400 San Jose, CA 95110 408.931.9085 www.avnetworks.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20110511/ff35b7f4/attachment.html>
