Find not finding

[Niels Fanøe]

I'm pretty sure he means this:
http://stevemiller.net/puretext/

-Niels 

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com 
-> [mailto:framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com]
->  On Behalf Of Beck, Charles
-> Sent: 22. maj 2006 16:49
-> To: Shmuel Wolfson
-> Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
-> Subject: RE: Find not finding
-> 
-> 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
->  
-> 
-> ________________________________
-> 
-> 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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