Use of TemplateMapper for converting from Word?

[David Kuhn]

Regarding the issue of using TemplateMapper to convert from word,
Caroline Tabach wrote:

 

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.

 

I found that I lost more by importing from RTF. There was still no
differentiation between Word styles. But graphics were no longer in
anchored frames and, although references can in very funny by importing
the word doc, at least they were working references. But this was lost
when importing the RTF.

 

Then I dug out an old message from Fred Ridder, I think, who suggested
using word macros to help map the styles.

This led to my discovery that the non-differentiation between styles was
actually an issue with the Word template being used. An older template
version did convert better with TemplateMapper because it differentiated
more between styles. So the current word template can be prepped for
conversion to Frame by macros. 

 

 

 

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[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

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