Importing Word Documents?

[alaska]

Does anyone have an easy way to import a word doc into chief X6 that does not change the formatting and/or tables.  The way I have been doing it is to copy the tables from the word doc into a .pdf file, save the notes to a .dwg file than import them into chief. Very slow and time consuming process w/ 5 or 6 pdf's in one layout file.

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[DavidJPotter]

You should be able to merely copy-paste Word Documents directly from Word to a Text box, I have done that for many years in many different versions without any trouble.

 

DJP

[alaska]

Yes David - I have done it that way also but you loose most of the formatting (i.e. tabs, indents, underlined words, bold words, italicized words and tables get all screwy) and still very time consuming.

[DRAWZILLA]

Try the "Paste Special" to keep the formatting.

[Richard_Morrison]

Just to be clear, this needs to be pasted into a Rich Text DBX, not a plain Text DBX.

[Alaskan_Son]

Unless I'm misunderstanding something, I would just save the word doc as a PDF and import the one PDF into Chief.

[alaska]

I have tried to import this document, it will not come in as formatted and the tables will be wacky. No matter if you cut and paste in a text window, a rich text window or import as a PDF. Unless I am missing something I think the first way I suggested is about the easiest way to do it.  Still a lot of clean up work to do and SLOW w/ all the tables in separate PDF windows.