Copy / paste table cells

[rebecca officer]

Hi Tim
 
Have you saved the old file as MIF to try and clear out gremlins?
 
And did you try going though other formats instead of Word -> Frame? Eg
Word -> HTML -> Frame?
 
If that doesn't get you a better source file, then if the table layout
isn't complicated, you should be able to convert the old table to text,
copy that to the new template, and then convert text to table in the new
template.
 
Even that sounds horrible for a 1500 page document. Maybe someone else
can suggest a more automated approach, but I can't.
 
Cheers
Rebecca
 
 
>>> "Timothy DeWees" <tdewees at charter.net> 7/03/12 03:41 >>>

Hi all,
 
I’m working on a project where a large document was originally in a
database (I don’t know what software) that was updated and posted online
as some sort of html document. The database was then converted to a Word
file which I subsequently converted to frame. The whole document
rendered as a huge, unmanageable table. So I created a new frame
template so we will have a workable document in the future. The main
problem I’m having is copying text in table cells from the old document
into the new. For example, I’m trying to copy two table columns of text
into a new two column table.  But when I do, the text from the 1st
column will cause my two columns to merge into a single column and the
text from the second column does not appear anywhere.  If I copy text
individual cell by cell, it works fine. But this is going to be a 1500
page document and that would take forever. 
 
Any suggestions on an approach I might take so that I can copy / paste
multiple rows at one time? I’m sorry I haven’t provided much info on the
original table, but I don’t understand it myself. The original table was
created in the conversion process and I would have no idea how to
duplicate it. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
 
Tim DeWees

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