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Just a thought which MAY overcome this problem for the many people that have
this problem and are using word2k.
Has anyone tried splitting the table at each line - importing into frame,
then killing the splits?
The macro to split a table at word's end is:
Sub PrepTablesForExport()
Dim k As Long
If Selection.Information(wdWithInTable) = False Then Exit Sub
With Selection.Tables(1)
While .Rows.Count > 1
.Split .Rows.Count
Wend
End With
End Sub
Simple select the too-complex table and run this macro. Hopefully export can
then understand each minitable.
Ideally one could have a matching macro on Frame that finds a table with a
single blank para in between it and the next table, and removes the para.
Steve Hudson
Principal Technical Writer
Wright Technologies (Aus)
steve -at- wright -dot- com -dot- au
(612) 9518-1822
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ellen Vanrenen
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 3:09 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Word to Frame
We have a very "precisely" formatted (fussy) document in Word. It has quite
a large number of screen shots that are placed in irregular word tables
(seems like cells are merged one way in one row and another in a different
row). The tables have shadows.
Anyhow, Frame conversion ends in an unspeakable way when asked to take the
Word document as a whole. The only way to convert it seems to be to
translate to .rtf and then redo ALL the tables in Frame and re-import the
screen shots.
Does anyone have any suggestions how we might do it otherwise?
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