Converting from Word to FM9: Tables in Tables??

[Gary Bankston]

Why not turn your table made Note/Caution/Warning into a graphic which will
easily scale into a table cell. Place it on the Reference page and call it
up just like a format.

Just a thought,
gb

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Alison Craig
<Alison.Craig at ultrasonix.com>wrote:

> My company is finally making the transition from MS Word 2003 to FM 9 for
> all manuals.
>
> On the advice of a consultant, I've translated my Note/Caution/Warning
> style into a table format as I was told this was the simplest way to
> duplicate my Word format (a simple hanging indent paragraph with a border
> above and below to demarcate the Note/Caution/Warning).
>
> The problem is that I also have to use the Note/Caution/Warning style in
> table cells and it seems that FM9 does not support tables in tables.
>
> I'm not sure if this forum will support attachments, but just in case it
> does, I've included a PDF of one of my simplest Word tables (2 columns only,
> with no shading) that also contains Notes and a Warning.
>
> If anyone can advise me of a (simple?) way to duplicate this within FM9,
> I'd be extremely grateful.
>
> Alison
>
>
>
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