Thanks, I think. It sounds like the subject of my message is science
fiction.
I buy your suggestion to transfer the data to Access, because it seems the
best approach to avoiding double maintenance. I'm not confident, however,
that Access is capable of producing the finished catalog. It sounds like
I'll need to embed Access reports into a Word document to produce the
printed catalog. Sounds messy.
The product hints are now treated either as sidebars or glorified
footnotes - no larger than a couple of paragraphs.
The catalog items destined for Access are in tables already; would Word to
Excel, Excel to Access, be a good migration strategy? I know wrong UG; I'll
check there but won't mind an answer here. Mille grazie!
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|I would copy the date out of Word and paste it it into
| Access. This may require some intermediate steps, like
| pasting into Notepad, copying from Notepad, pasting into
| Excel, parsing text into columns, copying from Excel, and
| then (finally) pasting into Access.
|
| Having done that, I would use an Access report to create
| my printed catalog and the FrontPage database results
| wizard to search and display it on-line.
|
| The product hints remain an issue. Are these like little
| sidebar write-ups that appear next to the catalog listing
| for for certain parts? How large are they? Are they
| straight text or do they contain pictures?
|
| Jim Buyens
| Microsoft FrontPage MVP
|
http://www.interlacken.com
| Author of:
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|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >I am about to create my first website, starting with a
| product catalog
| >created in Word 2002. The catalog includes a half dozen
| product lines which
| >vary in size from tens of items to hundreds, plus lots
| of product hints. Two
| >issues are very important to me:
| >
| >1) What is the best way to get the info from Word into
| FP?
| >2) How can I avoid double maintenance for price changes,
| new products, etc.
| >
| >I'm sure there are many other questions I should have
| asked, but didn't know
| >to do so. Any help, suggestions, references, etc. will
| be deeply
| >appreciated. TIA!
| >
| >PS. I'm very familiar with Word and Excel, and have
| limited experience with
| >Access, but a newbie to FP.
| >
| >--
| >All mail sent by me is virus-checked with NAV.
| >Patrick S. Page
| >Morongo Valley, CA
| >760-363-0062
| >
| >.
| >
