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Subject:Re: Word to Pagemaker conversion From:Peter Gold <pgold -at- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 5 Jun 1997 09:42:40 -0700
Pagemaker is a "container" of stuff. What you put in is what you get out.
So, if the Word documents were created with named styles for paragraphs,
they'll be preserved if the Word (or other application's) stuff is
brought in properly. Pasting is not the way. It's File>Place. PM will
find an appropriate filter to convert and preserve what's there.
Regards,
Peter Gold
pgold -at- netcom -dot- com
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Jennifer O Neill wrote:
> I've just come from one of my company's factories and watched an
> engineer responsible for documentation there copy & paste a Word manual
> to Pagemaker. He wasn't bothered by the fact that all table of content
> and index codes were lost nor about the amount of time it took. I admit
> that I'm not keen on putting our manuals into Pagemaker (our manuals are
> on average 50 pages) as documentation in the company is not centralised,
> few people in the company have it, & few translation subcontractors have
> it. But my biggest concern is what I saw today. Does moving Word docs to
> Pagemaker cause such info loss normally? What other problems should I
> look out for?
>
> Jennifer
>
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