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Did you close Word before importing the file into FrameMaker?
One warning I see again and again on these newsgroups is to turn off Fast
Saves because Fast Saves might be buggy and might be linked to many
problems users encounter in Word.
I use Word 97 and Frame 5.5 on the PC. I rarely need to bring in Word docs
and when I do it's via Word 95 and also via an RTF filter. Frame 5.5 does
claim to support Word 95 files, but my Word documents are complex
(graphics, customized styles, RD fields, xrefs, etc. . . ) so I just use a
method for importing that I am used to.
Sean
troy_goodson -at- iname -dot- com wrote in article <874537690 -dot- 14926 -at- dejanews -dot- com>...
> My apologies if this has been pointed out before, but I've noticed
> a little bug in FrameMaker's interpretation of Word documents. Since
> this may be of interest to Word users who cooperate with users of
> other word processors, I've cross-posted.
>
> I'm using FrameMaker+SGML v5.1.1 on a Mac. The documents that I've seen
> this problem with were created with MS Word v6.0.1 on a Mac.
>
> Word v6 allows the user to make 'Fast Saves'; in fact, I think it's
> the default. Anyway, when you open a fast-saved MS Word document with
> FrameMaker, it only shows you the first edit or version of the file. Any
> editing that has been done to file since the first fast-save is simply
> ignored by FrameMaker.
>
> I don't know if FrameMaker v5.5 has this problem or not.
>
> Troy.
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