RE: pasting table rows from MSW to FM

[Laurence Burrows <burrows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>Just select the row in Word and copy, then Paste Special in FrameMaker, 
>>using Rich Text Format (RTF).  The table comes into FM with the Word 
>>rules and para formats, but a normal FrameMaker table.
>
>Thanks, but one cannot, as far as I can see, use this method to paste a 
>row from a table in MSW directly into an _existing_ table in FM, which is 
>what I needed to do--246 times. FM returns the message 'No table cells on 
>the clipboard' when one tries.

The best I can come up with is to open an intermediate Frame document and 
use it as a conversion workspace.

1. In MSW, select the row(s) you wish to copy and choose Edit > Copy to the 
clipboard (Ctrl-C).

2. In FrameMaker, using the intermediate document (Untitled1.fm), choose 
Edit > Paste Special... and from the Paste Special dialog box choose Paste 
As: Rich Text Format.  This will recreate the MSW row(s) but as a 
FrameMaker table.

3. Select the required row(s) in table just created in the Untitled1.fm 
document and choose Edit > Copy (Ctrl-C).

4. Move to the target table in your working document and highlight the 
row(s) you wish to replace.  Choose Edit > Paste (Ctrl-V) and in the Paste 
Rows dialog box choose Option: Replace Current Rows and then click on Paste.



Regards,

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Laurence Burrows, Navex Pty Ltd
mailto:burrows@attglobal.net
tel: 03 9602 4533  fax: 03 9602 4854
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