How can I go back and forth between Word and FrameMaker

[lorilynnday]

I have a client who has all their documentation in FrameMaker, but needs to export to MS Word to distribute files for editing by various parties. Once edited, my client needs to bring the updated text back into Frame, ideally without having to re-format the entire file. It was suggested that RoboHelp 10 might work, but they are using unstructured FrameMaker.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Why not just create review PDFs out of FM? Then the reviewers can add edits and you can suck them back into your FM content?

[Art_Campbell1]

Jeff's recommending the best tool and workflow; I'll happily second that

because it creates a much better audit trail of who wrote what and what

happened to it than Word.

If you have to user Word, export isn't too big a problem, although I'd

strongly recommend MIF2go instead of RoboHelp for this. The problem is

going to be round tripping the comments back in... best you can do is use

Track Changes in Word, get it technically correct, and then copy in Word

and paste as text back into Frame.

It'll be pretty laborious hand work. PDFs and electronic review would be

much easier.

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