How to inputing the table have a lot of rows into Framemaker?

[NGAN HO THI KIM]

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?

[Winfried Reng]

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-gra...

Best regards

Winfried

[NGAN HO THI KIM]

Thank so much.

It's really helpful for me.

[Bob_Niland]

You can also export from Excel to PDF, and import that.

If FM doesn't need to access or reference table content, the PDF route has a lot of advantages.

Be sure to assign some asset ID so future document stewards know where the PDF came from. I used to use above- and/or below-table rows content that was clipped by the Anchored Frame.

[FrameMaker-dk]

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

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

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.