Re; Table sorting has accuracy issues

2009-06-05 Thread bhechter
Tom, If it's a one-shot task, a quick and dirty option would be to do your sorting in Excel then import the Excel file into Framemaker. Ben Hechter bhech...@objectives.ca www.semitake.com > Hi Listers, > > I've been experiencing problems in sorting a table alphabetically, with a > strong des

Re; Table sorting has accuracy issues

2009-06-05 Thread bhech...@yahoo.com
Tom, If it's a one-shot task, a quick and dirty option would be to do your sorting in Excel then import the Excel file into Framemaker. Ben Hechter bhechter at objectives.ca www.semitake.com > Hi Listers, > > I've been experiencing problems in sorting a table alphabetically, with a > strong

Table sorting has accuracy issues

2009-06-03 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Tom, The index references pages won't have any effect on table sorting. Table sorting is done with a .dll and can't be controlled anywhere like a reference page. Here is one workaround that I have done with a FrameScript script: 1) Add a temporary column to the table. 2) Take the

Table sorting has accuracy issues

2009-06-03 Thread tom.k...@kodak.com
Hi Listers, I've been experiencing problems in sorting a table alphabetically, with a strong desire to have the sort ignore spaces. FM 8.0 Windows XP with SP 2 I have a long 1-column table. Each cell has two paragraphs in it: Gloss term Glossary definition. Some examples that I have found pr

RE: Table sorting has accuracy issues

2009-06-03 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Tom, The index references pages won't have any effect on table sorting. Table sorting is done with a .dll and can't be controlled anywhere like a reference page. Here is one workaround that I have done with a FrameScript script: 1) Add a temporary column to the table. 2) Take the

Table sorting has accuracy issues

2009-06-03 Thread tom . kohn
Hi Listers, I've been experiencing problems in sorting a table alphabetically, with a strong desire to have the sort ignore spaces. FM 8.0 Windows XP with SP 2 I have a long 1-column table. Each cell has two paragraphs in it: Gloss term Glossary definition. Some examples that I have found pr

Table Sorting -- Cross-Reference Markers Disappear

2007-04-26 Thread Shlomo Perets
f markers disappear and the >cross-references to the target table no longer work. When the source >table is sorted, no problems. > >Any ideas on how to make this work, other than to sort all final content >first and then insert x-refs? ;-) This is indeed a long-standing problem -- present

Re: Table Sorting -- Cross-Reference Markers Disappear

2007-04-26 Thread Shlomo Perets
r and the cross-references to the target table no longer work. When the source table is sorted, no problems. Any ideas on how to make this work, other than to sort all final content first and then insert x-refs? ;-) This is indeed a long-standing problem -- present since table sorting capability

Table Sorting -- Cross-Reference Markers Disappear

2007-04-25 Thread Lin Surasky
Hi all- I'm told this is a long-standing problem, but I'm hoping there's a workaround. A coworker has two tables in a document. One table contains text that cross-references the content in the other table. When the target table is sorted, all the x-ref markers disappear and the cross-references t

Table Sorting -- Cross-Reference Markers Disappear

2007-04-25 Thread Lin Surasky
Hi all- I'm told this is a long-standing problem, but I'm hoping there's a workaround. A coworker has two tables in a document. One table contains text that cross-references the content in the other table. When the target table is sorted, all the x-ref markers disappear and the cross-references to

Consider Case Not Working in Table Sorting

2006-03-29 Thread Steven Mays
Hi FrameMaker 6.0 for Windows. I'm trying to use the "Consider Case" feature when sorting a table by row, but it does not work. I even experimented with the example shown in the manual, but it still does not work. In this a bug, or is there something I'm not doing right? Steven Mays

Consider Case Not Working in Table Sorting

2006-03-29 Thread Steven Mays
Hi FrameMaker 6.0 for Windows. I'm trying to use the "Consider Case" feature when sorting a table by row, but it does not work. I even experimented with the example shown in the manual, but it still does not work. In this a bug, or is there something I'm not doing right? Steven Mays _

table sorting

2005-12-13 Thread Art Campbell
In unstructured, it's the Sort item on the Table menu. Art On 12/13/05, Al Friend wrote: > OK, this is one of those things I have to do about every five years, and I > never remember how ... > > I want to set the sort order for a table. My recollection is that the > setting is somewhere in the

table sorting

2005-12-13 Thread Al Friend
OK, this is one of those things I have to do about every five years, and I never remember how ... I want to set the sort order for a table. My recollection is that the setting is somewhere in the FM program folder, but where? FM 7.1 on XP (structured). Thanks. Al Friend Howell Laboratories, Inc

Re: table sorting

2005-12-13 Thread Art Campbell
In unstructured, it's the Sort item on the Table menu. Art On 12/13/05, Al Friend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, this is one of those things I have to do about every five years, and I > never remember how ... > > I want to set the sort order for a table. My recollection is that the > setting i

table sorting

2005-12-13 Thread Al Friend
OK, this is one of those things I have to do about every five years, and I never remember how ... I want to set the sort order for a table. My recollection is that the setting is somewhere in the FM program folder, but where? FM 7.1 on XP (structured). Thanks. Al Friend Howell Laboratories,