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The short of it is that HTML really does not support multiple columns. Thus,
you are dealing with a limitation of your destination <g>.
Having said that, I've no idea why one column is disappearing from your
FrameMaker document. Try using WebWorks SE to do the conversion and see what
happens.
Cheers,
Sean
sean -at- quodata -dot- com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerald R. Posey [SMTP:geraldp -at- caddosheriff -dot- org]
> I've got a twelve page document created in Frame 6: mostly text, minor
> graphics, a couple of tables. Its formatted with two basic columns
> vertically on the page and continuing throughout the document. The first
> column is tagged A and is about 2" wide, the second is tagged B and is
> about
> 4" wide. I've kept them separate so that I could keep the text separated.
> I'm using the left hand column for simple quotes and the right hand column
> for the main body of the document.
>
> The problem I am having is that when I try to use the save as feature such
> as save as *.html, the only information that is converted is in the first
> column. As an experiment, I also attempted to save as *.doc for word.
> Both
> columns were converted but the first column ran its entire length and then
> the second column picked up and ran its entire length.
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