Re: Converting of styles from Word to a FM template

[Shannon Orr <sorr -at- FDS -dot- COM>]

Mike writes: "I am new to FrameMaker.
We supply software to a client company that has its own "LOOK" and our
manuals must look the same, using their templates.
The names of the "paragraphs" in the FM OEM template are not the same as
the "styles" in Word.
I converted manually one chapter very, very slowly.
Is there a way to do it at least 90% automatically, without changing the
name of all the Word styles?
FM uses convertion tables to convert to HTML. Is there something similar
for converting "styles" that would not cost a fortune of money?"

Mike, I don't know about FrameMaker, but I do know that in Word you can
write a macro (or VBA script) to find all occurrences of a style and change
the style name to another name (in this case, the "paragraph" name in the
FM file). Presumably your macro would include instructions to change all
applicable styles. Then you could run the macro for each document you want
to convert (or you could set up the macro to run against all documents in a
directory).

If you want to preserve the original Word documents with style names
intact, you can have the macro save the changed documents as new files,
either in the same directory, another directory defined in the macro, or
another directory of your choosing.

Although you'd have to take the time up front to create the macro code, it
should decrease your document conversion time substantially.

Hope this information is useful for you,
Shannon


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