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My experience with Excel is far from inbred... But I can offer a few
tips that should apply to any spreadsheet.
First, I would look in the spreadsheet for anything that can be
construed as a paragraph break. For each one of these, I would type
some special string... <pgfBreak> for example. Put that at the END of
the prospective paragraph.
I would consider doing the same for page breaks, but that may not be
reasonable. I would also use some indicator to show where in the text
each graphic should be.
Finally, you should consider using a similar scheme to identify
paragraph and character formatting.
Above all, I would write down the exact strings I used for each of these
tags.
Finally, after coding in all the information I could, I would then
export the spreadsheet as text, and open the text file in Maker. If
each cell comes in as a separate paragraph, you will have to do a
search/replace nothing to remove all paragraph chars.
Then, use search/replace to find your special tags, and do whatever is
appropriate. For example, for each paragraph code, search and replace
code/paragraph char for all in document. For the paragraph formatting,
you can copy the desired pgf format to the clipboard, then do a
search/replace by paste for all in document. Then do search/replace
nothing to delete all these codes.
For the graphics, you would have to search for the codes individually,
and manually place the graphics in the Maker document. But given all
the changes you made so far, I hope you can see how these codes would
come in handy.
This is what I would try, anyway. I hope this helps.
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