What Jeff said. And if you're really worried, save the Word file to a text
file, open it in something like Notepad++, and copy from there. You'll lose
some of the context of headings and things, though, which means keeping the
Word file open so you can check for things like heading tags and
Nope, with this line (looked it up this time) -
ClipboardFormatsPriorities=TEXT, FILE, MIFW, MIF, RTF, OLE 2, META, EMF, DIB,
BMP, UNICODE TEXT
It acts just like running it through Notepad first, no Word cruft.
From: Framers
on behalf
of Richard Melanson
I thought about this way but I didn't trust the copy/paste function to only
bring over text. You ever have any problems after with garbage left over from
Word?
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When I did this in the past (Word --> FM), I also followed the same approach
that Lin mentions - it is the one that prevents confusing issues later on
within FM or generating PDF, etc. There is usually some crud hanging around
that could cause problems otherwise.
Of course, now that I am using
The nice thing is that once you get it into FrameMaker you will know what
everything is. A silver lining of sorts.
Craig
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The Word file I inherited does not use any formatting standard, it's just a 193
pages of mish mash of whatever any given editor
I use PureText for copying and pasting as plain text. It works with
everything I use.
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 1:38 PM Jeff Coatsworth <
jeff.coatswo...@jonasclub.com> wrote:
> For a faster experience of copy/pasting text, I would use the tip to
> adjust your maker.ini to stick TEXT at the
For a faster experience of copy/pasting text, I would use the tip to adjust
your maker.ini to stick TEXT at the beginning of the ClipboardPriorityFormats=
line (ahead of the default UNICODE bit). That way you can copy in Word & paste
in FM as if you had gone through the Paste Special > Text
And that is exactly why I go the text route. If I didn't create that Word
file, I don't know whether the person who did set it up right or not.
Usually the answer is "not".
(On a side note, if you set up a Word template, create your own numbering
list styles and assign your own number styles to
The Word file I inherited does not use any formatting standard, it's just a 193
pages of mish mash of whatever any given editor felt like doing at the time.
I'm probably going to have to go to text then into Frame and manually assign
the formatting. YUCK :-)
Richard Melanson
Technical
That's exactly the approach I took when I converted nearly 10k pages of docs
from Word (Word 95 in those days) to Frame for a former, former employer. We
had pretty good compliance to the old Word template because we had been using a
complex, scripted conversion to Windows Help, so the
Thank you Carol,
Good point on the virus, I hadn't thought of that. I was just concerned I had
stepped out of line.
And thank you again, I will dig through the archives and see what I can come up
with.
Stay healthy.
Rick
Richard Melanson
Technical Writer|HighRes Biosolutions
I think it's more like no one has "templates" so didn't feel they could
help you.
Frame since, I think, 2017, has a Word Import facility that allows you to
map Word styles to Frame tags, which can do a lot of the work for you as
long as you have a file set up with the tags you want. Check Barb
Hi Rick,
No, you did absolutely nothing wrong. Remember that many, many of
this list's subscribers have been affected by coronavirus-related
work disruptions. They may not be reading list messages as regularly
as they had been. Of the ones that are, they perhaps have no solution to offer.
Hi Rick,
I haven't used any templates, but what I have done is renamed the para tags and
any character tags in the word doc to match what I have in frame (i.e., Heading
1 to Heading One) and then imported the doc file into frame. It seems to work
pretty well. The only thing is, you'll have
Hi Everyone,
I didn't get any responses to my email. If I have done something wrong or
offended anyone, I humbly apologize. I have been on and off this list since
1991 and Everyone I have ever dealt with has been great. So again Everyone, if
I did something wrong, my bad.
Thank you.
Rick
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