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Hi Andy<br><br>You can convert the table to text in Word, using a paragraph delimiter or whatever. Then copy and paste the text into FrameMaker. Then select the text in FM and convert it to a table (Table > Convert to Table), using the same delimiter. This works fine so long as there are no straddled (merged) cells in the original table.<br><br>Before you do it, ensure that the ClipboardFormatsPriorities line in your maker.ini file has TEXT as the first option. If not, either change it, or when pasting use Edit > Paste Special > Text. <br><br>Hope this helps.<br><br>Roger Shuttleworth<br>Technical Documentation<br>AV-BASE Systems Inc.<br>1000 Air Ontario Drive, Suite 200<br>London, Ontario<br>N5V 3S4<br>Tel. 519 691-0919 ext. 330<br><blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left: #0000ff 2px solid; margin-right: 0px"><hr><b>From:</b> Andy Smith (WFL) [mailto:andy.smith@wingedfeet.co.uk]<br><b>To:</b> framers@lists.frameusers.com<br><b>Sent:</b> Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:23:03 -0500<br><b>Subject:</b> Copying large data sets into tables<br><br>
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font-family:Arial">Does anybody know if there is a quick way of copying large
sets of table data from a Word doc into a FrameMaker 10 table?</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">I've tried copying straight from the clipboard (Windows 7)
but FrameMaker reports "No table cells on the clipboard." I'm guessing
that this means that FrameMaker is expecting to be pasting from one FrameMaker
table to another FrameMaker table. I've also tried copying via Notepad but I
get the same result.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial">Surely there must be a way of importing table data from
outside of FrameMaker.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial">Any ideas?</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoAutoSig"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Andy W. Smith<br>
Winged Feet Ltd.,<br>
Technical Writing, Documentation and Copywriting Services,<br>
Hemel Hempstead,<br>
England.<br>
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