I'm pretty sure that you'd have to have the ExtendScript open up the
Word doc in FM, then locate the portion you're interested in, copy it to
the clipboard and paste it into the FM file (and close the Word doc
without saving).
A bit clunky, but certainly doable.
You'd need some type of delimiter to identify the start/end points of
the portion of the Word doc. That could be a para or char tag or it
could be a unique string that identifies these points. Maybe even a
marker of some type. As long as you're just copying the text and not
trying to preserve any (random?) formatting, it should work. Getting the
formatting to stick would be trickier.
Cheers,
...scott
On 5/31/16 2:59 PM, eric_isaac...@selinc.com wrote:
Hi. Is it possible to use Extendscript to import a specific portion of a
Word document? My company records various specification information
(paragraphs, tables, graphics) for our products in Word documents, and a
portion of those Word documents contain information that will be imported
into our FrameMaker manual files. I was tasked to find out whether an
Extendscript could be used/created to pull in only the specific manual
information. One idea that was offered was to place some text identifier,
such as <Manual Only>, at the beginning and end of the manual portion of
each Word spec document. If there are better ways to tag this information,
please let me know. Also, please be aware, I have no influence on these
spec documents; I just have to use them.
Thanks.
Eric Isaacson
Product Literature Manager
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
selinc.com
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