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I couldn't agree more. Grab your Framemaker manual and read up on
tables. Creating tables is one of Framemaker's strongest capabilities
and one reason why so many writers dumped Word for Frame back in an
earlier century.
Candis Condo
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Of Combs, Richard
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 4:20 PM
To: Keith Hansen; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: FrameMaker: Automating Table Creation?
[I'm checking mail remotely, so forgive formatting weirdness; I have no
control.]
Keith Hansen wrote:
> Here is my question: Any way I can automate the table creation
process?
In other words, any way I can highlight the text, then somehow create a
table with the correct number of rows/columns AND the appropriate text
in each cell?
>
Spend some quality time with the FM manual or help. There's a menu
command specifically for doing exactly what you want: Table > Convert to
Table. But if you don't know about that, you probably need to learn more
about tables in FM in general, especially if you need to do this many
times. For instance, you should know how headings work, how table
formats work, and how to save an instance set up as you want it, with
the column widths you want and the correct paragraph formats appearing
automatically in the heading and body rows.
Contrary to someone else's comment, FM's capabilities regarding tables
are quite powerful and feature-rich. You just have to learn how they
work, which is different than in Word. Tables are objects in FM, not
just collections of rows, and they should be created using named formats
(think styles), just like paragraph and character formatting.
It would be abysmally foolish to create tables in Word, WP, PM, ID, or
anything else I can think of and import them into FM -- creating them in
FM is far, far better.
HTH!
Richard
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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
303-777-0436
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