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Without knowing what specific issues are taking up your time, it's
hard to guess. Are you following the instructions in the Flare Import
Guide?
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Ron Hearn <rhearn -at- central1 -dot- com> wrote:
> The documents use the same style, though I have only imported several documents so far. It could be that the more I use Flare, the better I will get at it and the faster it will be eventually.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: robert -dot- lauriston -at- gmail -dot- com [mailto:robert -dot- lauriston -at- gmail -dot- com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 10:15 AM
> To: Ron Hearn; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: Word-to-Flair Conversion Tool?
>
> Flare's Word import is pretty good.
>
> Is the problem that the Word docs are inconsistently styled so the results of the import are somewhat random?
>
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Ron Hearn <rhearn -at- central1 -dot- com> wrote:
>> We recently purchased Madcap Flare with the intention of moving nearly 100 Word documents into Flare. I am still learning Flare and the going is a bit slow even after importing a Word document into Flare. Is it too much to hope for that there is a tool or wizard that would speed things up?
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