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NGAN HO THI KIM
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March 23, 2023
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How to inputing the table have a lot of rows into Framemaker?

  • March 23, 2023
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Hello Everyone,

 

I have a format for a table which the border of the header and the end of the table is bold boder.

 

When i manually input for the table with little row into FM the format is no problem.
However, we have some tables that have a lot of rows so inputting each row into FM is a terrible job.

I also tried copying the table from excel but that lost the original properties of the table (e.g. table border)

 

So how to inputing the table have a lot of rows into Framemaker while keeping the original format of the table in Framemaker, and at the saving time?

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Dave Creamer of IDEAS
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Dave Creamer of IDEASCommunity Expert
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March 24, 2023

When I have complex data in Excel, I like to save it as a tab-delimited or csv file, then import into Frame. Frame will give you the option to convert the data to a table, apply a table style, and apply header/footer rows.

 

David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)
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FrameMaker-dkCommunity Expert
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March 23, 2023

Sounds like the table designs have an override regarding the thick line below the heading. I would recommend you buy Frameexperts small utility "Table Cleaner". It has save me lots of hours fixing tables!

https://frameexpert.com/store/index.html

Bjørn Smalbro - FrameMaker.dk
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    Winfried RengCommunity Expert
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    March 23, 2023

    Hi,

     

    You can create your table in Excel and paste this table as text without formatting (Edit | Paste Special). Then select all this text and convert it into a table (Table | Convert to Table).

    This works only, when there is only a single paragraph in each table cell.

     

    https://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/using/using-framemaker/user-guide/frm_tables_ta-text-and-graphics-in-tables_convert-between-text-and-table.html

     

    Best regards

     

    Winfried

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    NGAN HO THI KIMAuthor
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    March 23, 2023

    Thank so much.

    It's really helpful for me.

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