optimizing and copying column widths

[Robert Lauriston]

1. I have to copy a bunch of unformatted tables from a wiki into an
unstructured FrameMaker 10 document, which will be delivered as PDF.
(Someday we'll just leave them on the wiki but there are various
practical reasons we can't.) Here's my workflow.

- copy a table in browser
- paste as text in FM
- select and Convert to Table
- use Resize Selected Columns To Width of Selected Cells' Contents to
size columns where that makes sense
- fiddle around with various widths for the other columns until it looks good

Is there a more efficient way to optimize column widths? Word and
OpenOffice Writer automate that fairly well

2. These tables are all similar and have the same headings, so I can
use the same widths. Workflow:

- copy table in FM
- copy cells in Firefox
- paste as text in an FM scratch document
- select and Convert to Table
- copy cells
- select cells in copied table and paste, selecting Replace Current Rows

Is there a more efficient way? It's too bad FM10's Paste doesn't
recognize browser table cells as table cells.