This might seem like a naive question, but why not write up a User Guide for using your templates and modifying existing documents? Let them stay in FrameMaker, especially if they don't anticipate restyling (and when they do, they can call and you can knock it out).
There's nothing particularly, uniquely difficult about FM from an authoring perspective. In fact, if you make a custom toolbar (and comment out the overrides toolbar and other cruft) then it can be WAY easier for authors to use FM than give them all the rope in Word with which to hang themselves. I'd even go so far as to ensure that your template(s) 'self-document': They use every style, and in using them, explain how/when/why you pick a particular style from a catalog. That's also where you have your table of variables, for easy updating and reapplying (and instructions for same). Now, perhaps the client does not want to pay you for such SOPs and some training time. But I would argue that they are throwing bad money after good, to 'strip down' from the power of FM into the mud of Word. Of course, if "no one else at the company [has] FrameMaker" then you gotta to do what you gotta to do. Refer to all the other responses with their robust conversion processes! But even then, I'd STILL write up SOPs for using the Word template(s) properly, ESPECIALLY if you find that you need to do a lot of section manipulation to mimic FM's normally-book-level formatting (chapter-by numbering, variable first and recto/verso H/Fs, running H/Fs, etc). And expect a phone call in, oh, three months. ;-) HTH; David -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Framers] Transfer from FrameMaker into Word From: Janie Cole <[1]janiewoodc...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, April 25, 2018 9:30 am To: [2]framers@lists.frameusers.com My contract is ending and no one else at the company knows how to use FrameMaker. They have asked me to convert the SOPs that I produced for them into Word so others can maintain after I'm gone. All the docs are saved as PDF for general use. I'm thinking converting the PDF to Word might be the best route. Any thoughts or alternate suggestions? Thanks, Janie Cole Technical Writer [3]janiewoodc...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to [4]framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at [5]http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at [6]http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at [7]http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to [8]listad...@frameusers.com References 1. mailto:janiewoodc...@gmail.com 2. mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com 3. mailto:janiewoodc...@gmail.com 4. mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com 5. http://www.frameusers.com/ 6. http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com 7. http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com 8. mailto:listad...@frameusers.com _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
