Imported Word docs - table heading row of long tables is not repeated for further pages of the table

[Avraham Makeler]

Just remembered FM9 exists. Does anybody know if FM9 has a Table Properties
setting for this? (So I could install an evaluation edition for now (does it
save...?) and save my FM file backwards to FM8 to FM7.)

  - avi



On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Avraham Makeler <amakeler at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>   RE:  Imported Word docs - table heading row of long tables is not
> repeated for further pages of the table
>
> Using: FM 7.2.
> Importing from: Word 2003
>
> I found that when I import documents from Word 2003 that contain long
> tables, the table heading row is not repeated for further pages of the same
> table.
>
> I expected there to be a simple Properties setting controlling this, but I
> could not find one. I tried opening the FM documents in FM 8 to see if such
> a Properties setting exists there, and still no luck.
>
> So I ran a search for a solution, and I found the *"The Word-to-Frame
> table macro"*, by a certain *Stephen Sealy*, at:
>     http://www.techknowledgecorp.com/public/word2frame.pdf
>
> You save your FM document as a MIF file, and then load it into Word's VBA
> environment (yes...Word - we just want to use the Word API's powerful string
> processing facilities), and run Stephen's VBA program.
>
> Ok, great - but it didn't work. So I debugged it a bit, and found that it
> used a search string that was not quite accurate, so the searches did not
> work. Ok - so I fixed that, and ran it again. Then I found that it started
> to update the MIF by adding header rows, but then it hung the PC.
>
> OK - so it probably works, but maybe it was written for a different version
> of FM and/or MIF.
> So is there a different solution for this?
> Or does somebody have a debugged version of this VBA program? (For FM 7.2.)
>
> TIA
>
>   - avi
>
>
> "Mercy on all, coz everyone's fighting some sort of battle"
>



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avraham
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