On the topic of migrating Word dox to Frame

[Bart Windrum <bart.windrum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I invested a lot of time building some Word templates with sets of styles
whose names exactly match those used as Frame tags for our doc suite. It's
been months, but I recall that when I tested it myself it worked ok; e.g.,
author a doc in word, save as rtf, open in Frame, and voila: all tags were
assigned w/no violations.

This resource is now in use here, and the result is uneven at best, messy
more typically, with
- the aforementioned TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT Medium Italic and
TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT Medium appearing
- Word character styles appearing as frame para tags

I know I cannot rid the word dox of many of its default styles, and it's no
big deal to eliminate them in Frame.

But the need to virtually manually reformat the entire doc remains, and
that's what I'm striving to overcome. I don't mean recheck the doc to tweak
style application and make editing and doc-shaping decisions, I mean the
down and dirty search and destroy which burns so much time; these dox are
laced with phrases that require character formatting in addition to the
paratag flows of moderate complexity.

Bottom line: is there one or more comprehensive resource (article, archive,
book, seminar) that dissects the issue of taking Word source material and
repurposing it for Frame?

Btw, these are not terribly intensive dox (tables and pix are rare; they're
rarely longer than 30 pps; typically programmer guide content from the
SMEs).

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Bart Windrum
GUI Fit&Finish and Documentation
Diogenes Inc.
410 17th St. #1260
Denver CO 80202

720 904 2321 x125
fax 720 904 9032
Bart.Windrum@DiogenesInc.com



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