[Framers] Questions about import from Word

[Lin Sims]

A few more details would help. :)

   1. There's no fast way to replace images copied into a file with images
   imported by reference. It's pretty much an image by image deal.
   2. Fixing them how?
   3. Did the text come through with the color intact, or are you applying
   a tag to fix that it didn't come through? In either case, there is, as far
   as I know (I know I'll be corrected if I'm wrong) no way to search for
   color and no way to apply it without creating a paragraph or character tag.
   If the color came through the conversion, then there should be a tag for it
   that you can search for.
   4. If the bold and italic didn't come through then there's not much
   chance of "fixing it" other than searching for the words or phrases you
   know it should be and applying it. Note that FrameMaker WILL let you
   manually format things like bold and italic without creating character tags
   for them, but it's generally Not A Good Idea. Best practise is to create
   tags.
   5. Fix the xrefs how? What's wrong with them?

The last few bits of a Word conversion, the general tidying up, as you put
it, are normally the most manually intensive ones. There aren't many ways
around it. Frankly, my personal experience has been that it is frequently
easier to convert the Word file(s) to pure text and just work from that,
but YMMV.

You might want to check out some of Rick Quattro's scripts. The
TableCleaner script is invaluable for converting and cleaning up Word
tables. The FindChangeBatchFormats script may also be of use, since it
renames tags for you and could be used to rename any imported styles from
Word to their equivalent Frame tags.


On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 3:19 AM Caroline Tabach <caroline.tabach at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> as I wrote in a previous mail I have imported a guide form Word to Frame.
>
> I spent time learning the templates and setting it all up and most styles
> converted well.
>
> However, it seems that there is a lot of additional work, is there any way
> to make this faster?
>
> These are the things i am working on.
>
> 1. Replacing all graphics that are copied into the files, by graphics
> imported by reference
> 2. Fixing Master page of first pages of chapters
> 3. Some text was marked green or red, not by using a specific style, I made
> appropriate paragraph tags and am applying.
> 4. Applying bold and italic in places where it was missed out in the
> conversion
> 5. General tidying up
> 6. Is there any way that cross references can be fixed?
>
> Are there any shortcuts?
>
>
>
>
> --
> Caroline Tabach
> Technical/Marcom Writer
> e-mail: caroline.tabach at gmail.com
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Lin Sims