Re: Single-sourcing in FrameMaker

[Yves Barbion <yves -dot- barbion -at- gmail -dot- com>]

You can copy one or more cells in Excel and, in FrameMaker, choose Edit 
 > Paste Special > Paste Link. You will then paste the copied cell(s) as 
an OLE object.

And if you want to do more complicated things, there is always 
Framescript (www.frameexpert.com and www.framescript.com).

Good luck and kind regards



Yves Barbion 
Documentation Architect
Adobe-Certified FrameMaker Instructor
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Keith Hood wrote:
> Recently I've been experimenting with Word, coming up
> with homebrew methods for creating conditional text
> and CMS processes. In Word you can set up codes that
> allow you to import content from other files. I've
> been wondering, is there a way to achieve the same
> thing in Framemaker? For example, in Word you can set
> up an Access or Excel file, and import data into your
> target file from specified areas of the Access or
> Excel file, so I import only the contents of one table
> cell, rather than the whole table. So far, the only
> Framemaker importing capabilities I know of are pretty
> limited - for example in Framemaker I can import an
> entire Excel worksheet, but I can't find any way to
> import data from only one cell. 
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
>
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