Word to Frame hyperlick wierdness

I just spent a day fixing a problem that shouldn't have happened.
I have a project glossary that was created in Microsoft Word 2007. It consists of definitions for acrnyms and a list of terms which are linked to their definitions in our departmental wiki glossary. The lnking is straightforward HTML to a named anchor in the wiki.
For reasons that aren't important here, we decided tht we needed to convert the glossary from Word 2007 format to FrameMaker (I'm using FM10). I first tried the conversion by File > Import and selecting the Word document format as input source. It didn't work. Links were formatted as hyperlinks (blue underlined text) but none of the links actually worked. Looking at the file, it appeared to have created empty hyperlink markers for each link.
I then tried the conversion using the RTF 1.6 format. This appeared to be more successful - most (but not all) of the terms appeared to having working hyperlinks. However, on checking I found the NONE of the hyperlinks pointed to their intended target. Basically the conversion had inserted hyperlink markers in some more or less random order. As well, markers were inserted in words that weren't hyperlinked.
I ended up using IXGEN's (incredibly useful) expand markers feature to view the markers, and manaully copied and pasted them to where they should have been. I'm just glad there were only about a hundred terms instead of a thousand.
Adobe really needs to put more effort into FrameMaker's import filters. A job that should have taken an hour or two at most ended up taking a day.
Regards
Keith

I don't know if this is any help for the future, but for converting a
Word document to FM, Adobe recommends using File> Open, rather than
File> Import. In other words, open the Word document directly as a new
document. FrameMaker reads it right in, though I have no experience with
how well it handles Word hyperlinks.
Mike

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The source PDF was not a well formed Tagged PDF.
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Costs, to customize their translation memory system to the clients custom xml,
costs to follow badly or not documented changes in the client's xml structure (DTD/Schema changes) in the TMS,
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"glue" the ten-thousand xml "snippets" to more handy chunks,
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http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1058786?tstart=0
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word = new JLabel("HEAD");
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a = new JTextArea(10,8);
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a.setBackground(Color.yellow);
scrollPane = new JScrollPane(a);
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lastword = new JLabel("FOOT");
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submitButton = new JButton("Submit");
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show = new JTextArea(10,15);
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delete.setBounds(150 + insets.left, 70 + insets.top,size.width, size.height);
//sets the location of the label
size = word.getPreferredSize();
word.setBounds(25 + insets.left, 95 + insets.top,size.width, size.height);
//sets the location of the textarea
size = a.getPreferredSize();
a.setBounds(25 + insets.left, 115 + insets.top,size.width, size.height);
          size = scrollPane.getPreferredSize();
scrollPane.setBounds(25 + insets.left, 115 + insets.top,size.width, size.height);
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size = lastword.getPreferredSize();
lastword.setBounds(25 + insets.left, 280 + insets.top,size.width, size.height);
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size = submitButton.getPreferredSize();
submitButton.setBounds(25 + insets.left, 310 + insets.top,size.width, size.height);
//sets the location of the textArea
size = show.getPreferredSize();
show.setBounds(150 + insets.left, 115 + insets.top,size.width, size.height);
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String text = answer.getText();
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public void removeAnswer(String s, int i, int j){
try {     s = " ";
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frame.setSize(350 + insets.left + insets.right,
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frame.setVisible(true);
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public void run() {
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I have a screen now that has pinkiness shadowing the words and frames on my screen.. it's the same if I'm in appleworks or anywhere else. This is the best I can do to describe it It's getting worse as I speak.
I have calibrated the colors and check in universal access but to no avail.
3 months ago something similar happened but worse. I didn't use the computer for 4 days (switched off and on battery power only). when I started up it was fine and has been ok until today.
Please don't tell me my beloved Mac screen is terminally ill.
Can anyone give me some good news about this?
Many thanks
Gordon

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I'm a Frame AND scripting noob. I'm migrating several long docs from Word to Frame 10. I'd like to figure out how to automagically ID and add hyperlinks to URLs written in plain text after conversion. This sounds like a job for ExtendScript.
My mental model looks like this:
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3. Open HYPERTEXT toolbar in Frame UI;
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