Converting Excel Tables to Structured FM Tables

[Shmuel Wolfson]

Copy the Excel tables from Excel to Word (not as OLE). Word adds them as 
tables. Open the Word files in Frame, then remove all borders and 
shading (optional).

Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133


On 11/30/2010 4:37 PM, Fei Min Lorente wrote:
> I'm using structured FrameMaker 7.2 on Windows XP SP3.
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> I have about 30 small tables, each in separate files (okay, they're
> actually OLEs in a Word document) to convert to structured FrameMaker
> (using a custom DTD) today, and I was wondering what you would recommend
> as the most efficient method using only the tools that I have at hand.
> I also have FrameScript (but haven't written any scripts) and FrameSLT
> Lite Version 2.0 beta. So far I have tried:
>
> *         Creating a blank table in FrameMaker and copying and pasting
> one cell at a time.
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> *         Copying the whole table into FrameMaker as a tab-delimited
> block of text, then converting text to table. However, I don't get my
> table elements and have to change all of them.
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> I'm thinking of copying all the tables into an unstructured FrameMaker
> file and running a conversion table on all of them to turn them into
> proper structured tables. Any other ideas?
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> Fei Min
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