RE: Another DITA question

Subject: RE: Another DITA question
From: "Inbar, Paul" <paul -dot- inbar -at- intel -dot- com>
To: "Kevin McGowan" <thatguy_80 -at- hotmail -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 09:46:05 +0300

What about if you import the word document into Frame, (File > Import > File) and then use Frame's conversion tables apply the structure? The success of this approach would depend to an extent on what the formatting of the word document is like, and would involve learning how to use Frame's conversion table. Still, if you have a lot of Word files, and they are formatted similarly, you might save yourself a lot of work.
In any event, good luck!
Paul

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From: techwr-l-bounces+paul -dot- inbar=intel -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+paul -dot- inbar=intel -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On Behalf Of Kevin McGowan
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 10:43 PM
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Another DITA question

Hi again everyone,

A couple of months ago, I emailed the list asking for advice on how to best
get ready for the switch from Word to DITA-structured FrameMaker. I got a
lot of great help and feedback.

Well, I've got the tools all ready to go, and I'm going to start the
conversion soon. (gulp!)

The old Word docs are now in decent shape, but still far from perfectly
structured. I'm looking at these hundreds of pages and starting to picture
myself going through them, line-by-line, and copying the text into XML.

Before I start this long and boring task...has anyone found a decent
shortcut? I have tried saving Word files as XML, HTML, etc, but that frankly
just seems to add layers of confusion. If anyone has any bright ideas,
please let me know.

And if not, just wish me luck ;)

Kevin

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