Re: Word exporting

["Richard G. Combs" <richard -dot- combs -at- voyanttech -dot- com>]

"Steve Hudson" <steve -at- wright -dot- com -dot- au> wrote:

> Has anyone tried splitting the table at each line - importing into frame,
> then killing the splits?
<snip>
> Ideally one could have a matching macro on Frame that finds a table with a
> single blank para in between it and the next table, and removes the para.

Unfortunately, Frame's tables don't work that way. In Frame, a table is
actually a variant of anchored frame. You can't "merge" tables by deleting
the intervening paragraphs as you can in Word. In Frame, the result would
simply be separate tables anchored in the same paragraph.

Now, if the single-row tables had the same number of columns, you could copy
and paste rows. But, the lack of row-to-row consistency was part of the
original problem.

Tables in Frame and Word are just too different for any but the simplest to
convert well. Ellen, I'm afraid that the best solution is to convert the
table to tab-delimited text, import that into Frame, and convert the text to
a table in Frame. As for the merged cells, either unmerge them before
converting to text or, afterward, manually add tabs where necessary (to
"normalize" the rows).

In any case, plan on removing the graphics from the Word document and
replacing them later in Frame. You should probably do this even without the
table issue. Graphics are typically pasted into Word. I strongly suggest
that you save them as separate files and import those by reference in Frame.

In fact, while you're at it, you might want to rethink how the layout is
accomplished. Frame isn't Word; don't try to recreate your Word document in
Frame. There's probably a better way to do what you want!

HTH!
Richard

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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Voyant Technologies, Inc.
richard -dot- combs -at- voyanttech -dot- com
303-223-5111
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