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Pacha9
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May 30, 2008
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Framemaker 7.2 Windows XP SP3 Excel copy/paste

  • May 30, 2008
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After installing SP3 on Windows XP I find that I am no longer capable of doing a copy/paste of Excel tables in a Frame document. The result is a very small frame with no object inside.

All worked fine when I unsintalled SP3 an I was able to create tables by copying them from Excel and using the Edition/Paste special in Frame.

Anyone having same problem and found a solution other than uninstalling SP3

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    Arnis Gubins
    Arnis Gubins
    Inspiring
    May 30, 2008
    FWIW, you can also import Excel files by Reference into FM and format
    either using the source or your document's table formatting.
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    _Monica_Valdez_
    Participating Frequently
    May 30, 2008
    Two (sort of) workarounds:

    1. Use Edit > Paste Special (Rich Text Format). However, if you have color-shaded cells, they covert as black fill; in FM, changing the text in those cells to "white" is a workaround to the workaround. :|

    2. Copy/Paste the table into Word, Save As the Word to RTF, copy the table in Word then, in FM use Edit > Paste Special (Rich Text Format). Plain text and cell shading converts fine; however, calculated numbers get trashed. Another :|
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    Art Campbell
    Inspiring
    May 30, 2008
    SP3 apparently "fixed" OLE... this has been reported since SP3 started shipping and affects any OLE imports.

    No one has mentioned a "fix," but I would expect it to come from Microsoft rather than Adobe.

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