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Good morning,
I'm using Adobe FrameMaker 12 (version 12.0.4.445), and Microsoft Word for Office 365 MSO (16.0.10827.20118) 32-bit.
I regularly receive requests to pull all of the content from an existing Word document into FrameMaker. Often, these existing Word documents consist mainly of tables (hundreds of pages of tables).
What would you all recommend as the most robust way to pull these tables into FrameMaker? The table rows have irregular shading patterns, and the table text is irregularly indented.
All the best,
Cameo
I have two questions:
If the answers are no and yes, I would convert the table to tab-delimited text within Word, copy it into FM as plain text, and reconvert it to a table in FM. (If the answers are yes and yes, this might still be OK, depending on how burdensome it would be to reapply the formatting within
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I have two questions:
If the answers are no and yes, I would convert the table to tab-delimited text within Word, copy it into FM as plain text, and reconvert it to a table in FM. (If the answers are yes and yes, this might still be OK, depending on how burdensome it would be to reapply the formatting within FM).
If the answers are yes and no, I would save the Word doc as a PDF, delete/crop pages to create a (potentially multipage) PDF of each table to import by reference as graphic images.
If the answers are no and no, you could plausibly use either method.
A couple caveats:
Hoping any of this is even remotely helpful....
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Hello dauphinb,
Yes and yes. Reapplying the formatting tends to be pretty burdensome. Reapplying the cell shading isn't too bad, but setting up all of the tabs for the random indented cells really slows me down, given the number of tables.
Thank you for all of your help!
~Cameo
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For common table reformatting tasks, you can't beat Rick Quatro's TableCleaner script, available here.
I purchased it years ago, and it paid for itself in the first project.
Believe me, it'll be worth every penny!
-Matt
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Hi Matt,
Thank you for sharing! I'll look into Rick Quatro's TableCleaner script.
~Cameo