Converting Excel Tables to Structured FM Tables

[Fei Min Lorente]

I'm using structured FrameMaker 7.2 on Windows XP SP3.

 

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.

*         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.

 

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?

 

Fei Min

 

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