Converting Word doc to Frame.

[Yorke, Carl]

Many thanks to all who responded to my plea for help. I'm better off now that I was before.
Thanks!
Carl


Carl Yorke
Documentation Manager
ActiveVideo Networks, Inc.
333 W. San Carlos Street, Suite 400
San Jose, CA 95110   
408.931.9085
www.avnetworks.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Pinkham, Jim [mailto:Jim.Pinkham at voith.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 5:46 AM
To: Steve Rickaby; Flato, Gillian; Yorke, Carl; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Converting Word doc to Frame.

I'm a big fan of those two plug-ins on the FM side. Good point :) 

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Rickaby [mailto:srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk] 
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 2:54 AM
To: Pinkham, Jim; Flato, Gillian; Yorke, Carl;
framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Converting Word doc to Frame.

At 10:25 -0500 11/5/11, Pinkham, Jim wrote:

> BTW, Jack Lyon, over on the Editorium, has a Delete Unused Styles
macro that's very helpful for getting rid of the detritus in a Word doc
or template so that the Word doc you're importing into Frame with your
File-Import command only has the limited set of styles that you want and
need.

SiliconPrairie's Paragraph Tools and Character Tools plug-ins have the
respective 'Delete unused styles' commands too. Ok, you have to buy
these, but they're not costly, and have a load of other useful commands
as well.

It's somehow really satisfying to see the para style palette shrink
before your eyes ;-) I've had a document (which had clearly 'been around
a bit') go from over 100 para styles to about six before now.

Their Table Tools plug-in does the same thing for unused table styles.

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Steve