[Framers] Best Method, Word 2013 to Frame 2019.

Carol J. Elkins celkins at awrittenword.com
Tue Mar 12 08:53:22 PDT 2019


I use Klaus Daube's enhanced Toolbar 
(http://www.daube.ch/docu/fmaker71.html), which makes it easy to copy 
a paragraph or character style in Frame and  paste it using Frame's 
powerful Find/Replace commands. Sounds like this works much the same 
as the Word commands.

Carol

At 05:14 AM 3/12/2019, Shmuel Wolfson wrote:
>It's much much faster. If there is one feature I miss from Word, 
>it's the incredibly powerful Find/Replace.
>
>There is a script in Frame you can buy to replace styles, but in 
>Word you can also find specific character formats and replace by 
>tagging a Style.
>
>
>On 11-Mar-19 7:51 PM, Carol J. Elkins wrote:
>>Shmuel, since I've never worked in Word (I am allergic to it), I'm 
>>curious as to whether your method of applying styles in Word after 
>>a find/replace is easier or more efficient than retagging every 
>>paragraph in Frame?
>>
>>Carol
>>
>>
>>At 11:27 AM 3/11/2019, Shmuel Wolfson wrote:
>>>If everything is tagged as Normal, you can do a find/replace in 
>>>Word to find specific character formats, such as a specific font 
>>>size, a certain font, or bold, and replace with a specific style. 
>>>Word's Find/Replace is very good. To do this, leave the Find box blank.
>>>
>>>
>>>On 11-Mar-19 6:15 PM, Carol J. Elkins wrote:
>>>>If your Word docs are formatted to use 100% Normal style, then, 
>>>>your only choice is to manually tag every paragraph in Frame. I 
>>>>find it easiest to copy/paste from the Word doc rather than 
>>>>opening the Word doc in Frame. That prevents all of Word's 
>>>>garbage from coming along for the ride.



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