converting Frame to Word

[Van Boening, Tammy]

Yvonne,

I have had to go down this minefield myself and it wasn't fun. I
ultimately used a combination of Mif-2-Go and some valuable, valuable
macros from tech-tav (http://www.tech-tav.com/). These are completely
free macros from a reputable third party that automate many, many things
in Word and get rid of the dreaded master document. From Tech-Tav's
site:

TechTav Macro Suite is used world-wide to replace features and automate
work in Word for Windows 6/7/97/2000/2003/XP. It completely replaces the
Master Document, AutoNumbering, AutoHeadingNumbering, Insert Captions
and Insert Cross-Reference features. Because files are closed when not
being edited, the Tech-Tav replacement for Master Documents does not
cause resource or file-handling problems and does not corrupt documents.
TechTav Macros allows you to number pages, figures and tables across
files. For a full description of the TechTav Macro Suite's
functionality, click here.

Your end users will also need to have Tech-Tav at their end, but they
are painless to download. Also, I had to  make sure that my starting
Framemaker templates were as simple as possible to map to the styles in
Word, so although the final Word templates were ultimately not identical
to the Framemaker source files, they were close enough and my end-users
were happy (well, as  happy as you can be using Word!).

Contact me off list if you want more info.,

HTH,

TVB


Tammy L. Van Boening
Senior Technical Writer
Fiserv Insurance Solutions 
Property and Casualty Division
303-729-7733
tammy.vanboening at fiserv.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces+tammy.vanboening=fiserv.com at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+tammy.vanboening=fiserv.com at lists.frameusers.com
] On Behalf Of Yvonne Mills
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:31 AM
To: Framers at frameusers.com
Subject: converting Frame to Word

Hello,

I was recently asked to convert our FrameMaker template into a MS Word
template. Yes, I know this is backwards (and we all know the benefits of
Frame over Word).  However, the reason for this is because another
department wants to make similar-looking documents, but they don't have
FrameMaker.

This is a book template, so it includes several "templates" (cover
templates, a frontmatter template, chapter templates, appendix
templates, and templates for TOC and IX), with roman numeral numbering
in the fontmatter and regular numbering for the body of the document,
along with cross-reference formats, and some reference page graphics
(for warning and note symbols).

My question for you is: What is the best way to do this?

I was leaning toward using Mif2go to get RTF, and then using Word's
master document to build the "book".

Is there a better way?

 
Thanks.

By the way, if it helps:  FrameMaker 7.1 / Windows XP pro SP2 / Word
2003

 
Yvonne Mills
Technical Writer 2
JDSU-ComTest-TFS
+1-540-378-1398

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