[Framers] Transfer from FrameMaker into Word

[William Saylor]

As an occasional FM user I heartily endorse David's suggestion about
templates. Would have saved me untold hours.
Bill

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From: Framers <framers-bounces+wsaylor=earthlink.net at lists.frameusers.com>
On Behalf Of David Artman
Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 11:37 AM
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Subject: Re: [Framers] Transfer from FrameMaker into Word

   This might seem like a naive question, but why not write up a User
   Guide for using your templates and modifying existing documents? Let
   them stay in FrameMaker, especially if they don't anticipate restyling
   (and when they do, they can call and you can knock it out).

   There's nothing particularly, uniquely difficult about FM from an
   authoring perspective. In fact, if you make a custom toolbar (and
   comment out the overrides toolbar and other cruft) then it can be WAY
   easier for authors to use FM than give them all the rope in Word with
   which to hang themselves.

   I'd even go so far as to ensure that your template(s) 'self-document':
   They use every style, and in using them, explain how/when/why you pick
   a particular style from a catalog. That's also where you have your
   table of variables, for easy updating and reapplying (and instructions
   for same).

   Now, perhaps the client does not want to pay you for such SOPs and some
   training time. But I would argue that they are throwing bad money after
   good, to 'strip down' from the power of FM into the mud of Word.

   Of course, if "no one else at the company [has] FrameMaker" then you
   gotta to do what you gotta to do. Refer to all the other responses with
   their robust conversion processes! But even then, I'd STILL write up
   SOPs for using the Word template(s) properly, ESPECIALLY if you find
   that you need to do a lot of section manipulation to mimic FM's
   normally-book-level formatting (chapter-by numbering, variable first
   and recto/verso H/Fs, running H/Fs, etc).

   And expect a phone call in, oh, three months. ;-)

   HTH;

   David

   -------- Original Message --------
   Subject: [Framers] Transfer from FrameMaker into Word
   From: Janie Cole <[1]janiewoodcole at gmail.com>
   Date: Wed, April 25, 2018 9:30 am
   To: [2]framers at lists.frameusers.com
   My contract is ending and no one else at the company knows how to use
   FrameMaker.
   They have asked me to convert the SOPs that I produced for them into
   Word
   so others can maintain after I'm gone.
   All the docs are saved as PDF for general use. I'm thinking converting
   the
   PDF to Word might be the best route.
   Any thoughts or alternate suggestions?
   Thanks,
   Janie Cole
   Technical Writer
   [3]janiewoodcole at gmail.com
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