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* Select the desired row, and from the FrameMaker menus, choose Table >
Convert Selected Rows > Body to Heading Rows.
* Instead of importing tables, convert the table to text, import the text,
convert the text back to table, specifying that there's a heading row.
(You do have to be careful that the target Frame table style has a heading
row.)
* Use the nifty TableCleaner plugin, http://www.frameexpert.com/plugins/tablecleaner/, to deal with all kinds of
formatting for table conversions. I didn't find it exactly intuitive, but
when I read the directions, they were right :-).
-Monique
> [Original Message]
> From: Keith Hansen <KRH -at- weiland-wfg -dot- com>
> To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
> Date: 9/24/2009 1:30:57 PM
> Subject: FrameMaker: Adding Header Row to Imported Table
>
> I had a Word doc with tables. I imported it into FrameMaker.
>
> Now, I want to make the first row of each table a header (which--if the
> table slops over onto a second page--will repeat on the following page).
>
> How do I get Frame to do this? It just treats the first row of each
> imported table like a body row.
>
> Thanks for any tips!
>
> Keith
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