RE: Copy / paste table cells

2012-03-15 Thread Timothy DeWees
Hi folks, I was the guy with the problem pulling in text from a source table and having it straddle rows in my new table. I thank you all as I got lots of great suggestions and I promised to report back. In the end as I'm looking at converting a 1700 page document, I decided it was time to get

RE: Copy / paste table cells

2012-03-09 Thread Craig Ede
Be aware that pasting a straddled cell from your source will usually replace multiple cells (equal to the number of the original straddling) in your destination. That is, unless the straddle is pasted to the last cell in a row, in which case it just replaces the last cell as an unstraddled cell (at

RE: Copy / paste table cells

2012-03-08 Thread Timothy DeWees
mothy DeWees Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Copy / paste table cells If I were doing the project, I'd take a couple steps backwards, to the HTML file, which I assume is still online. Although I haven't done it, if you Google the string: "html table to excel"

Re: Copy / paste table cells

2012-03-08 Thread Art Campbell
If I were doing the project, I'd take a couple steps backwards, to the HTML file, which I assume is still online. Although I haven't done it, if you Google the string: "html table to excel" you'll find pages full of tools, including an Excel macro which apparently will bring it in cleanly. Otherw

Re: Copy / paste table cells

2012-03-08 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Tim Have you saved the old file as MIF to try and clear out gremlins? And did you try going though other formats instead of Word -> Frame? Eg Word -> HTML -> Frame? If that doesn't get you a better source file, then if the table layout isn't complicated, you should be able to convert the o