[Framers] Batch Word Conversion

[John Posada]

>This only really works if the Word docs are consistently Styled.<

I'm not too worried about this. I've brought into my 3 main documents
somewhere around 75 existing "1-topic" documents and reapplied my styles to
maybe 98% of them....I hope

On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 5:19 PM Jeff C <knowonelse at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do not be surprised if you have to make multiple attempts to create a
> stable conversion document mapping Word styles to FM elements. We ended up
> at Version 34.
>
> One technique I used was to change all text in the Word doc to green before
> converting. Any text that didn't convert to something in FM stayed green
> allowing me to focus on Styles that didn't get mapped properly.
>
> This only really works if the Word docs are consistently Styled.
>
> Jeff C - no longer working in FM, but ugh, Word instead
>
> +++++
> "As of FrameMaker 2015, FM can map Word styles to FrameMaker tags. They
> don't even have to have the same names. It'll at least do the initial
> work."
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John Posada