RE: Converting Word doc to Frame.

[Steve Rickaby]

At 10:25 -0500 11/5/11, Pinkham, Jim wrote:

 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.

SiliconPrairie's Paragraph Tools and Character Tools plug-ins have the 
respective 'Delete unused styles' commands too. Ok, you have to buy these, but 
they're not costly, and have a load of other useful commands as well.

It's somehow really satisfying to see the para style palette shrink before your 
eyes ;-) I've had a document (which had clearly 'been around a bit') go from 
over 100 para styles to about six before now.

Their Table Tools plug-in does the same thing for unused table styles.

-- 
Steve
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RE: Converting Word doc to Frame.

[Pinkham, Jim]

I'm a big fan of those two plug-ins on the FM side. Good point :) 

-Original Message-
From: Steve Rickaby [mailto:srick...@wordmongers.demon.co.uk] 
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 2:54 AM
To: Pinkham, Jim; Flato, Gillian; Yorke, Carl;
framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Converting Word doc to Frame.

At 10:25 -0500 11/5/11, Pinkham, Jim wrote:

 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.

SiliconPrairie's Paragraph Tools and Character Tools plug-ins have the
respective 'Delete unused styles' commands too. Ok, you have to buy
these, but they're not costly, and have a load of other useful commands
as well.

It's somehow really satisfying to see the para style palette shrink
before your eyes ;-) I've had a document (which had clearly 'been around
a bit') go from over 100 para styles to about six before now.

Their Table Tools plug-in does the same thing for unused table styles.

--
Steve
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RE: Converting Word doc to Frame.

[Yorke, Carl]

Many thanks to all who responded to my plea for help. I'm better off now that I 
was before.
Thanks!
Carl


Carl Yorke
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ActiveVideo Networks, Inc.
333 W. San Carlos Street, Suite 400
San Jose, CA 95110   
408.931.9085
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-Original Message-
From: Pinkham, Jim [mailto:jim.pink...@voith.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 5:46 AM
To: Steve Rickaby; Flato, Gillian; Yorke, Carl; framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Converting Word doc to Frame.

I'm a big fan of those two plug-ins on the FM side. Good point :) 

-Original Message-
From: Steve Rickaby [mailto:srick...@wordmongers.demon.co.uk] 
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 2:54 AM
To: Pinkham, Jim; Flato, Gillian; Yorke, Carl;
framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Converting Word doc to Frame.

At 10:25 -0500 11/5/11, Pinkham, Jim wrote:

 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.

SiliconPrairie's Paragraph Tools and Character Tools plug-ins have the
respective 'Delete unused styles' commands too. Ok, you have to buy
these, but they're not costly, and have a load of other useful commands
as well.

It's somehow really satisfying to see the para style palette shrink
before your eyes ;-) I've had a document (which had clearly 'been around
a bit') go from over 100 para styles to about six before now.

Their Table Tools plug-in does the same thing for unused table styles.

--
Steve


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Converting Word doc to Frame.

[Steve Rickaby]

At 10:25 -0500 11/5/11, Pinkham, Jim wrote:

> 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.

SiliconPrairie's Paragraph Tools and Character Tools plug-ins have the 
respective 'Delete unused styles' commands too. Ok, you have to buy these, but 
they're not costly, and have a load of other useful commands as well.

It's somehow really satisfying to see the para style palette shrink before your 
eyes ;-) I've had a document (which had clearly 'been around a bit') go from 
over 100 para styles to about six before now.

Their Table Tools plug-in does the same thing for unused table styles.

-- 
Steve

Converting Word doc to Frame.

[Pinkham, Jim]

I'm a big fan of those two plug-ins on the FM side. Good point :) 

-Original Message-
From: Steve Rickaby [mailto:srick...@wordmongers.demon.co.uk] 
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 2:54 AM
To: Pinkham, Jim; Flato, Gillian; Yorke, Carl;
framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Converting Word doc to Frame.

At 10:25 -0500 11/5/11, Pinkham, Jim wrote:

> 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.

SiliconPrairie's Paragraph Tools and Character Tools plug-ins have the
respective 'Delete unused styles' commands too. Ok, you have to buy
these, but they're not costly, and have a load of other useful commands
as well.

It's somehow really satisfying to see the para style palette shrink
before your eyes ;-) I've had a document (which had clearly 'been around
a bit') go from over 100 para styles to about six before now.

Their Table Tools plug-in does the same thing for unused table styles.

--
Steve

Converting Word doc to Frame.

[Yorke, Carl]

Many thanks to all who responded to my plea for help. I'm better off now that I 
was before.
Thanks!
Carl


Carl Yorke
Documentation Manager
ActiveVideo Networks, Inc.
333 W. San Carlos Street, Suite 400
San Jose,?CA 95110???
408.931.9085
www.avnetworks.com


-Original Message-
From: Pinkham, Jim [mailto:jim.pink...@voith.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 5:46 AM
To: Steve Rickaby; Flato, Gillian; Yorke, Carl; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Converting Word doc to Frame.

I'm a big fan of those two plug-ins on the FM side. Good point :) 

-Original Message-
From: Steve Rickaby [mailto:srick...@wordmongers.demon.co.uk] 
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 2:54 AM
To: Pinkham, Jim; Flato, Gillian; Yorke, Carl;
framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Converting Word doc to Frame.

At 10:25 -0500 11/5/11, Pinkham, Jim wrote:

> 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.

SiliconPrairie's Paragraph Tools and Character Tools plug-ins have the
respective 'Delete unused styles' commands too. Ok, you have to buy
these, but they're not costly, and have a load of other useful commands
as well.

It's somehow really satisfying to see the para style palette shrink
before your eyes ;-) I've had a document (which had clearly 'been around
a bit') go from over 100 para styles to about six before now.

Their Table Tools plug-in does the same thing for unused table styles.

--
Steve

RE: Converting Word doc to Frame.

[Pinkham, Jim]

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



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[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Flato,
Gillian
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 5:30 PM
To: Yorke, Carl; framers@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

* gfl...@nanometrics.com mailto:gfl...@nanometrics.com 

 

From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Yorke, Carl
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 3:21 PM
To: framers@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

 

 

 

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Converting Word doc to Frame.

[Pinkham, Jim]

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







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Converting Word doc to Frame.

[Yorke, Carl]

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



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RE: Converting Word doc to Frame.

[Flato, Gillian]

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
* gfl...@nanometrics.commailto:gfl...@nanometrics.com

From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com 
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Yorke, Carl
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 3:21 PM
To: framers@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.comhttp://www.avnetworks.com



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Converting Word doc to Frame.

[Yorke, Carl]

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



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Converting Word doc to Frame.

[Flato, Gillian]

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-bounces at lists.frameusers.com 
[mailto:framers-boun...@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<http://www.avnetworks.com>



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RE: Converting Word doc to Frame

[Ridder, Fred]

Jeez, now you're going to test my memory, because most of
the conversion work I did was more than five years ago when 
I migrated our pubs group from Word to FrameMaker as our 
standard tool.

Our docs were all in Word 95, which meant the macros were
written in Word Basic rather than Visual Basic for Applications,
which I am much less familiar with. I had a flock of separate 
small macros that each did relatively simple operations like:
- removing manual page breaks
- removing empty paragraphs 
- searching for paragraph styles that were not part of the 
standard template 
- searching for manually applied character formatting (i.e.
not using our template's defined character styles)
- removing all autonumbering (done by SEQ codes in Word)
- dealing with annotations, hidden text, and other background
content
- replacing linked graphics with placeholders that identified 
the source file
- removing irrelevant field codes (including *lots* of empty 
index entry fields)
- deleting the Word TOC, LOT, LOF, and index

Then I had a couple of more complex macros that did things
like renaming all the Word styles to the new names that were 
defined in the FrameMaker templates, and converting some
of the fancy stuff we had done on our API reference pages
from the Word implementation to a FrameMaker way of doing
things.  The final macro burst the monolithic Word docs into 
a series of separate files on chapter boundaries. 

The end result was a set of small, clean files that could
be imported into the FrameMaker templates with a minimum
of muss and fuss.  

My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel.
Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com)
Intel
Parsippany, NJ



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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Anne Robotti
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 9:13 AM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Converting Word doc to Frame

 I've converted thousands of pages using only Word (with macros
 to do a bunch of clean-up pre conversion) and FrameMaker. 

Fred, could you elaborate on these macros? What do they do, and how do
they work?

Thanks,

Anne
 
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[Anne Robotti]

> I've converted thousands of pages using only Word (with macros
> to do a bunch of clean-up pre conversion) and FrameMaker. 

Fred, could you elaborate on these macros? What do they do, and how do
they work?

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Converting Word doc to Frame

[Ridder, Fred]

Jeez, now you're going to test my memory, because most of
the conversion work I did was more than five years ago when 
I migrated our pubs group from Word to FrameMaker as our 
standard tool.

Our docs were all in Word 95, which meant the macros were
written in Word Basic rather than Visual Basic for Applications,
which I am much less familiar with. I had a flock of separate 
small macros that each did relatively simple operations like:
- removing manual page breaks
- removing empty paragraphs 
- searching for paragraph styles that were not part of the 
standard template 
- searching for manually applied character formatting (i.e.
not using our template's defined character styles)
- removing all autonumbering (done by SEQ codes in Word)
- dealing with annotations, hidden text, and other background
content
- replacing linked graphics with placeholders that identified 
the source file
- removing irrelevant field codes (including *lots* of empty 
index entry fields)
- deleting the Word TOC, LOT, LOF, and index

Then I had a couple of more complex macros that did things
like renaming all the Word styles to the new names that were 
defined in the FrameMaker templates, and converting some
of the "fancy" stuff we had done on our API reference pages
from the Word implementation to a FrameMaker way of doing
things.  The final macro burst the monolithic Word docs into 
a series of separate files on chapter boundaries. 

The end result was a set of small, clean files that could
be imported into the FrameMaker templates with a minimum
of muss and fuss.  

My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel.
Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com)
Intel
Parsippany, NJ



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From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com] On
Behalf Of Anne Robotti
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 9:13 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Converting Word doc to Frame

> I've converted thousands of pages using only Word (with macros
> to do a bunch of clean-up pre conversion) and FrameMaker. 

Fred, could you elaborate on these macros? What do they do, and how do
they work?

Thanks,

Anne

Converting Word doc to Frame

[Art Campbell]

Do a pre-cleaning in Word to remove extra carriage returns and any
Word oddities.
Save the Word docs as .RTF and open them in FM.
Save the imported files, then save again as .MIF files to remove extra
characters.
Open the MIFs and save them as your working set of files.

Art

On 3/16/06, Gillian Flato  wrote:
> Guys,
>
> I know this has been discussed before, but what is the best tool to use
> to convert a word doc (with text, tables and images) to a Frame doc.
>
>
> Thanks,

--
Art Campbell art.campbell at 
gmail.com
  "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent
   and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson
 No disclaimers apply.
 DoD 358

Converting Word doc to Frame

[Gillian Flato]

Guys,
 
I know this has been discussed before, but what is the best tool to use
to convert a word doc (with text, tables and images) to a Frame doc.
 

Thanks,

Gillian Flato

Technical Writer (Software)

NANOmetrics, Inc.

1550 Buckeye Dr.

Milpitas, CA. 95035

(408.435.9600 x 316

7  408.232.5911

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RE: Converting Word doc to Frame

[Ridder, Fred]

I've converted thousands of pages using only Word (with macros
to do a bunch of clean-up pre conversion) and FrameMaker. But
my process only worked well because the Word documents all
followed the template/stylesheet very closely. I did find that the
conversion worked better by opening a copy of the FrameMaker
template and using FileImportFileCopy Into Document rather
than trying to open the Word document directly. 

Tables converted reasonably well, and with the use of Rick Quatro's
excellent TableCleaner plug-in they became well-behaved Frame 
tables with only a little work. Figures, on the other hand, I removed
before conversion (using a macro) and re-inserted by reference 
after conversion. Trying to convert figures directly was more trouble
than it was worth.

My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel.
Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com)
Intel
Parsippany, NJ

 

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Guys,
 
I know this has been discussed before, but what is the best tool to use
to convert a word doc (with text, tables and images) to a Frame doc.
 

Thanks,

Gillian Flato

Technical Writer (Software)

NANOmetrics, Inc.

1550 Buckeye Dr.

Milpitas, CA. 95035

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Converting Word doc to Frame

[Gillian Flato]

Guys,

I know this has been discussed before, but what is the best tool to use
to convert a word doc (with text, tables and images) to a Frame doc.


Thanks,

Gillian Flato

Technical Writer (Software)

NANOmetrics, Inc.

1550 Buckeye Dr.

Milpitas, CA. 95035

(408.435.9600 x 316

7  408.232.5911

* gflato at nanometrics.com  




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Converting Word doc to Frame

[Ridder, Fred]

I've converted thousands of pages using only Word (with macros
to do a bunch of clean-up pre conversion) and FrameMaker. But
my process only worked well because the Word documents all
followed the template/stylesheet very closely. I did find that the
conversion worked better by opening a copy of the FrameMaker
template and using File>Import>File>Copy Into Document rather
than trying to open the Word document directly. 

Tables converted reasonably well, and with the use of Rick Quatro's
excellent TableCleaner plug-in they became well-behaved Frame 
tables with only a little work. Figures, on the other hand, I removed
before conversion (using a macro) and re-inserted by reference 
after conversion. Trying to convert figures directly was more trouble
than it was worth.

My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel.
Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com)
Intel
Parsippany, NJ



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Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 5:29 PM
To: framers at FrameUsers.com
Subject: Converting Word doc to Frame

Guys,

I know this has been discussed before, but what is the best tool to use
to convert a word doc (with text, tables and images) to a Frame doc.


Thanks,

Gillian Flato

Technical Writer (Software)

NANOmetrics, Inc.

1550 Buckeye Dr.

Milpitas, CA. 95035

(408.435.9600 x 316

7  408.232.5911

* gflato at nanometrics.com  




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