Find not finding

[Beck, Charles]

Thanks, Shmuel, but I don't see a PureText option in the Paste Special
dialog box. The closest I can find is one labeled Text-but as I said,
that one is *not* the equivalent as pasting into Notepad and then
copying and pasting from there. That-the Text option-was the option we
were using that introduced the problem. 
 
Am I missing something here? 
 
Chuck
 

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From: Shmuel Wolfson [mailto:sbw at actcom.com] 
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 10:04 AM
To: Beck, Charles
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Find not finding


You can use PureText to paste the text in without formatting. It's
faster than pasting into Notepad, and is the equivalent.

-- 
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson



Beck, Charles wrote: 

	Hi Guy, 
	
	OK, I checked with the writer in question, and he reported that
what he
	did was a copy-and-paste operation. But, to avoid the selection
coming
	in as an embedded Word object, he selected "Paste as Special"
and then
	selected the "Text" option. He was under the impression that
that would
	bring it in as plain (ASCII) text, but apparently not so. 
	
	We are using Frame 7.0, so I can't say whether this same kind of
problem
	still exists in later versions. I rather suspect it does,
though. 
	
	Because we have a site license for Mif2Go, our writer is
downloading and
	trying Jeremy's "Wash Via MIF" plugin, even as we e-speak.
	
	Personally, I have always just copied from Word, pasted into a
temporary
	Notepad doc, and then copied-and-pasted from there. That ensures
that I
	get clean text, though it does necessitate retagging the text
copied in.
	(However, since copying-and-pasting directly from Word usually
	necessitates paragraph retagging anyway, this does not add that
much
	more to the process...) More time consuming, but safer, in my
	experience. I haven't tried Jeremy's plugin yet.
	
	HTH,
	Chuck
	
	
	-----Original Message-----
	From: Guy K. Haas [mailto:guy at cliveden.com] 
	Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 3:48 PM
	To: Beck, Charles
	Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
	Subject: Re: Find not finding
	
	Charles--
	
	Might I ask how the original Word material was brought into
FrameMaker? 
	  That is, was it opened with File>Open and thus filtered in
through
	FrameMaker's own mechanisms?
	
	And was this all in the context of FrameMaker 7.2, or was an
older
	version involved?
	
	Some of our team will be facing the Word->Frame conversion soon,
and
	when I shared your info with them, they asked.
	
	--Thanks,
	     Guy K. Haas
	     Software Exegete in Silicon Valley
	
	Beck, Charles wrote:
	  

		Hi again all,
		 
		Just wanted to let you all know that I received several
replies, 
		including one with the correct remedy. Thought it might
be of general 
		interest to the rest of the group.
		 
		The tip of the hat goes to Alan Houser who asked whether
there was any
		    

	
	  

		imported MS Word content in the file. Apparently, Word
content can 
		include hidden control characters that can interfere
with the Find 
		function. That was the case with our problem. Saving as
MIF and then 
		reopening and saving as *.fm resolved the problem.
		    

	...
	  

		Chuck
		    

	
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