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I'm helping to evaluate converting our documentation for several
products from MS Word to FrameMaker. At one of Adobe's product seminars,
I thought I heard the software guy say that word-to-framemaker
conversions are much more effective if you can set up a FrameMaker
template with style tags that have the same names as the Word style
tags.
That makes sense, but the current documentation files include a ton of
styles--is there any way I can make Word (97 or 8.0, call it what you
wish) print a list of the styles associated with each document? That
would make it easier to create the matching styles in FrameMaker.
Of course, if anyone has a more elegant solution, I'm all ears.
