Copying Word text to FM unstructured 12.

[Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain@aeris.net)]

What I like to do is save the Word file as "Plain Text" from Word 2013 ... this is one of the options within Word to output file formats.

This makes every paragraph in the Word document stay as a single line in the text file.

When I read this text file into FrameMaker, the single line converts automatically into a single paragraph again.

One other thing I do is turn hyphenation off inside Word - this avoid dash character inserts inside the words.

Finally, saving this way helps my em-dashs, smart-quotes, etc., also stay properly output into the text files (have to use the "Windows default" option when saving as text).

Much simpler to do this rather than having to do tons of post-edits to fix all the "special" characters.

Z

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Winberg, Harold
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 10:25 AM
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Subject: Copying Word text to FM unstructured 12.

Do I have to anything special when copying and pasting word into FM 12. I understand it should be plain text or it can retain a lot of Word garbage.

Does FM 12 take care of this or do I need to save or paste it as plain text??

Thanks
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