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

[Shmuel Wolfson]

You just have to add a header row (Table>Add Rows or Columns>Add 1 Row 
To Heading).

Unlike Word, you can't tell Frame that a row is (or is not) a heading 
row. If you want a heading row, you have to add one. If you don't want a 
heading row, you have to delete it.

Also, when a table is imported from Word, it may have custom ruling 
which you may not want. Select the entire table, then select 
Table>Custom Ruling and Shading>From Table (to all sides of cell)>Apply.

Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133


On 01-Jul-10 2:02 PM, Avraham Makeler 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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