Copying large data sets into tables

[Tammy Van Boening]

I used this plugin to import and cleanup for a large number of tables in a
legacy Word document, and it worked like a charm even w/ all the garbage
that a legacy Word document can have (and it was a ton - - more like a
landfill's worth). And, if you are lucky enough to have styles in your Word
document, Rick  also wrote a script for me that reads these Word styles in
your tables, and after import, applies the corresponding correct FM
paragraph style.

 

I have no financial gains from making this statement - just one very
satisfied customer.

 

TVB

 

 

 

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Rick Quatro
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 1:03 PM
To: andy.smith at wingedfeet.co.uk; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Copying large data sets into tables

 

Hi Andy,

 

Your best bet is to open (or import) the Word document with FrameMaker. It
will preserve the tables, but they will require some clean up. I designed my
TableCleaner plugin to automate some of the clean up of Word tables in
FrameMaker. For more information, see

 

http://www.frameexpert.com/plugins/

 

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Thank you very
much.

 

Rick

 

Rick Quatro

Carmen Publishing Inc.

*** 585-283-5045 *** NEW NUMBER

rick at frameexpert.com

http://www.frameexpert.com

 

 

 

 

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Andy Smith (WFL)
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 9:23 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Copying large data sets into tables

 

Hi

 

Does anybody know if there is a quick way of copying large sets of table
data from a Word doc into a FrameMaker 10 table?

 

I've tried copying straight from the clipboard (Windows 7) but FrameMaker
reports "No table cells on the clipboard." I'm guessing that this means that
FrameMaker is expecting to be pasting from one FrameMaker table to another
FrameMaker table. I've also tried copying via Notepad but I get the same
result.

 

Surely there must be a way of importing table data from outside of
FrameMaker.

 

Any ideas?

 

 

Andy W. Smith
Winged Feet Ltd.,
Technical Writing, Documentation and Copywriting Services,
Hemel Hempstead,
England.

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