Cleaning Up the Mess

You might have already discovered that there is a significant amount of cleanup after conversion, despite the care taken to develop a slick, great-looking FrameMaker template. Whether you have already made this discovery or are about to embark on the adventure, this chapter guides you through key techniques to solve the most common problems with minimal headaches.

You’ve already noticed how messy the text and other elements look after opening or importing a Microsoft Word file into FrameMaker. Usually, this mess consists of empty paragraph returns, tab stops piled on top of each other, tables split, elements in the wrongs places, and paragraphs formatted incorrectly.

Begin your Assembly Line Style of clean up with the small ...

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