Copying large data sets into tables

[Roger Shuttleworth]

Hi Andy

You can convert the table to text in Word, using a paragraph delimiter or whatever. Then copy and paste the text into FrameMaker. Then select the text in FM and convert it to a table (Table > Convert to Table), using the same delimiter. This works fine so long as there are no straddled (merged) cells in the original table.

Before you do it, ensure that the ClipboardFormatsPriorities line in your maker.ini file has TEXT as the first option. If not, either change it, or when pasting use Edit > Paste Special > Text. 

Hope this helps.

Roger Shuttleworth
Technical Documentation
AV-BASE Systems Inc.
1000 Air Ontario Drive, Suite 200
London, Ontario
N5V 3S4
Tel. 519 691-0919 ext. 330
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From: Andy Smith (WFL) [mailto:andy.smith at wingedfeet.co.uk]
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Sent: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:23:03 -0500
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
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