Use of TemplateMapper for converting from Word?

[Caroline Tabach]

To try and make this more useful, Save the Word document as rtf
Then open the RTF file in FrameMaker.
Now all of your styles are preserved.
Obviously this might not solve your other issue, but does help with the paragraph styles.

Caroline Tabach
Technical/Marcom Writer


                
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-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of David Kuhn
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 6:09 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Use of TemplateMapper for converting from Word?

When I first heard of TemplateMapper, I wondered if this could be used
to help convert from Word to FrameMaker.
Then I saw some postings on the list that confirmed that some people do
use it for this.

Now that I have TemplateMapper, I cannot figure out how it is helpful
for this. 
If you Import a Word document, selecting Copy into Document, then all
the paragraph tags (except headings and captions) become *BodyText with
no distinction between bullets or numbers, for example.

Other issues:
*	It doesn't look like the TemplateMapper can help with the
cross-references because, for instance, there's no way to distinguish
between the cross-reference types. 

*	Because our notes are in tables, it doesn't look like there is
any way around redoing them all manually.

*	It doesn't actually convert the tables. I need to go over them
with TableCleaner.




David Kuhn
Technical Writer, PBG


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