Importing a Word Doc into Frame v9.0

[Jeremy H. Griffith]

On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:43:46 -0700, Alison Craig <Alison.Craig at ultrasonix.com> wrote:

>As a novice Frame user, I am currently doing the same thing (taking a 350 page Word manual and moving to FrameMaker 9).
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>As a long time, highly skilled Word user, I know from experience that there is a mountain of invisible crap in the Word doc - so my best advice is to not import the Word document at all!
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>Instead, save the Word doc as a text file, open the text file in something like Notepad, then copy in the plain text and completely reformat the Frame doc from scratch. This may be more work in the short term, but you'll create a better template and avoid any hassles that importing Word files could cause down the road.
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>Yes, this means you have to deal with everything (graphics, master pages, etc) from scratch. But it also gives you the chance to begin your Frame career with a "best practices for FrameMaker" approach rather than a "I have to live with Word-defined stuff even though I'm now working in Frame" approach. 
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>I have no doubt this is taking me longer, but I am more confident about the results.

+1!!!

Alison is absolutely right.  I couldn't say it better.  Don't even
consider using Frame's Word or RTF import.  Bring in the content as
plain text by Copy in Word and Paste Special>Text in Frame.  You
will be very glad you did.

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
  <jeremy at omsys.com>  http://www.omsys.com/