MS Word to FrameMaker

Question

Hi Everyone,
We import a lot of documents from Word to our FrameMaker book templates. We have text, tables, and graphics. I've tried using Frame's "Import Text Flow by Copy"  with "Reformat Using Current Document's Formats" and removing manual page breaks and other format overrides. This nicely takes care of unwanted paragraph tags, but we seem to be getting unwanted fonts from the original Word document. You can't necessarily see them on the screen, but when you ask Frame to make a List of References for Fonts, they appear in the list, and can sometimes appear as "ghosts" in the final document. Anyone know of a way to import the Word docs without getting the fonts? Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

There are a number of FAQs on this available... Google is your friend.
Bonus points: if your Word files don't use styles, just save them
as text and copy-and-paste the content into Frame. That eliminates the
fonts right there. ***
Otherwise, to summarize:
After you get the content into Frame (Saving from Word to RTF and
opening that in Frame is most reliable), save the FM file as MIF, then
open that file and save it as .fm .
Impose your FM template and map the paragraph tags. (Easiest is to
use the same set of styles/tag names on both sides.)
In your FM preferences, turn off Remember Missing File Names.
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