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Martin Soderstrom wonders:
> Is it better to start converting to Frame right away, or would it be wiser
> to get all of the Word documents consistent in style before starting the
> conversion?
Given that you have a lot of documents that you are trying to both standardize
and convert to a different DTP program, I would do the standardization first.
My experience is that you can better set up your conversion if you are mapping
"Head 1" to "Head 1", "Paragraph" to "Paragraph", etc. where all of the
formatting is both consistently established and controlled by styles. I'd be
willing to bet that use of style components in your existing documents is also
inconsistent such that documents that look like they are consistently formatted
probably aren't. I think you'll be better, more consistent, and quicker
conversion results if you standardize your formatting first, then convert.
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