Word to Frame

[quills at airmail.net]

    Yes, using Silicon Prairie Software's Paragraph Tools is the 
easiest way to convert on tag to another.

Scott

At 1:25 PM -0800 2/22/08, Jennifer Randel wrote:
>Hi all,
>Wouldn't it be just as easy to use Silicon Prairie Software's 
>Paragraph Tools as it is to create that macro?
>
>~Jennifer
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com 
>[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Fred 
>Ridder
>Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 12:20 PM
>To: Mike Feimster; Flato, Gillian; Framers List
>Subject: RE: Word to Frame
>
>
>Responding to Gillian Flato, Mike Feimster wrote:
>>  What I've done in the past is use word macros to make the para styles
>>  in Word match the Frame styles, then import the word docs into Frame.
>
>
>That's exactly the same approach I used in converting ~10k pages of 
>Word docs (>50 docs) into FrameMaker at a previous employer.
>
>Just to amplify on a few points, though:
>
>You really want to use File>Import>File (Copy Into Document) to pull 
>the Word content into a pre-formatted FrameMaker template rather 
>than directly opening the Word file from the FrameMaker File menu. 
>Besides the fact that the import filter somehow seems more robust in 
>that mode, you also have the opportunity to leave behind most of 
>Word-specific formatting junk by choosing the "Reformat Using 
>Current Document's Formatting" option in the Import Text Flow by 
>Copy dialog.
>
>In the same macro that you use to rename the Word paragraph styles, 
>you should also redefine any styles that use bullets or numbering to 
>remove them. If bullets or autonumbers are present in the Word file, 
>FrameMaker does its best to preserve them and you'll get garbage 
>characters in the converted file.
>
>Other useful operations in prepping the Word file are to remove any 
>TOC, LOT, LOF, and index (since FrameMaker handles them completely 
>differently), strip any headers and footers (these will be defined 
>in your FrameMaker template) and remove any section breaks 
>(meaningless in Frame). In my own process, I also removed all 
>graphics from the Word file because they really slowed the 
>conversion down and I knew we were going to replace the pasted-in 
>images with anchored frames and referenced graphics post-conversion.
>
>-Fred Ridder
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