THEelephant
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I'm useing the place and autoflow to import text. I'm getting thick lines accross the page. Maybe as many as 50 per page oner about 37 pages. Anyone know what's going on here?
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BionicJohn
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Hi, THEelephant,
> > import text.
What's the source file format? *.TXT? *.RTF?
If it's MS Word, style clashes are a big issue. Here's what Lyn wrote some time ago:
"There are several 'safe' ways of getting the text into PM to ensure you don't bring in conflicting styles with the potential to corrupt the PM docs:
1. Save the text from Word as rich text format (.RTF) or plain text (.TXT) instead of as a .DOC, then use File>Place to get it into PM. Make sure you immediately delete the link to the Word doc in the Links Manager, otherwise problems next time you open the PM file as it will look for that RTF/TXT file - bad news if you have made changes to the text in PM.
Saving in RTF or TXT formats strips out the Word styles. The former however retains all bolding and italicising, the latter does not.
2. Copy and paste the text into a brand new PM doc, highlight all the text and on the Styles palette, click on the [No Style] option. Then recopy the text and paste it into your existing PM doc and apply PMs styles. (Don't save the PM doc where you applied the [No Styles]).
Either way, it is far better to apply styles using PM than to bring in Word styles.
3. When you are in the "Place" dialog box, try checking "read tags." This will prevent the Word document from importing its own styles into your document.
-- With thanks to Lyn Eggleston"
Iechyd da! John
Glannau Mersi, Lloegr.
> > import text.
What's the source file format? *.TXT? *.RTF?
If it's MS Word, style clashes are a big issue. Here's what Lyn wrote some time ago:
"There are several 'safe' ways of getting the text into PM to ensure you don't bring in conflicting styles with the potential to corrupt the PM docs:
1. Save the text from Word as rich text format (.RTF) or plain text (.TXT) instead of as a .DOC, then use File>Place to get it into PM. Make sure you immediately delete the link to the Word doc in the Links Manager, otherwise problems next time you open the PM file as it will look for that RTF/TXT file - bad news if you have made changes to the text in PM.
Saving in RTF or TXT formats strips out the Word styles. The former however retains all bolding and italicising, the latter does not.
2. Copy and paste the text into a brand new PM doc, highlight all the text and on the Styles palette, click on the [No Style] option. Then recopy the text and paste it into your existing PM doc and apply PMs styles. (Don't save the PM doc where you applied the [No Styles]).
Either way, it is far better to apply styles using PM than to bring in Word styles.
3. When you are in the "Place" dialog box, try checking "read tags." This will prevent the Word document from importing its own styles into your document.
-- With thanks to Lyn Eggleston"
Iechyd da! John
Glannau Mersi, Lloegr.
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THEelephant
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Doing it this way will also omit any footer (reference) information too right? So is there any way to import just taht? (footers)
BionicJohn
Technical User
HI, THEelephant,
> So is there any way to import just that? (footers)
Not automatically AFAIK.
Iechyd da! John
Glannau Mersi, Lloegr.
> So is there any way to import just that? (footers)
Not automatically AFAIK.
Iechyd da! John
Glannau Mersi, Lloegr.
Unfortunately, footers (and headers) are not able to be brought into PM from Word automatically. You will have to bring them in manually and place them on the master page(s) to which each page is relevant. Same goes for footnotes - one thing Word is brilliant with.
BionicJohn
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Hi, Lyn,
I've never done it, but PM should import the footnotes - though where they'll appear in PM I don't know.
Iechyd da! John
Glannau Mersi, Lloegr.
I've never done it, but PM should import the footnotes - though where they'll appear in PM I don't know.
Iechyd da! John
Glannau Mersi, Lloegr.
I seem to recall reading that PM puts footnotes as endnotes, although I haven't tried it personally. However, I recently worked on several large Word docs full of footnotes and couldn't believe that it was able to place and number them correctly on the page where the marker appeared, even when extra text was added or deleted.
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