Hi all,
I have a very large (huge even) table that I need to re-create in Flare, and it's taking forever. Is there some way I could do an excel import, or some other trick to speed up it's creation. Right now the original isn't strictly a table, just a bunch of ordered text. Thanks.
Huge table - tricks for speeding it up
Re: Huge table - tricks for speeding it up
If you have Flare v4.x or higher, you can select the cells in the Excel spreadsheet and copy (Edit > Copy or Ctrl + C), then go to a topic in Flare and paste (Edit > Paste or Ctrl + V). The Paste Text screen will appear -- select the option to paste as a table.
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Re: Huge table - tricks for speeding it up
You could also try to save as html document and "import" that into Flare.
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Re: Huge table - tricks for speeding it up
Hrmm, then you're trusting Microsoft's HTML coding, which can be dodgy (take a look at the HTML output from a Word export in a text editor some time - the amount of extraneous code is unreal).Andrew wrote:You could also try to save as html document and "import" that into Flare.
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Kevin Amery
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Re: Huge table - tricks for speeding it up
I'm not trusting Microsoft's HTML (though in Office 2007 it's gotten much better) so much as I'm hoping Flare will clean a lot of it up on import. I haven't tried it before, but it's worth a shot.KevinDAmery wrote:Hrmm, then you're trusting Microsoft's HTML coding, which can be dodgy (take a look at the HTML output from a Word export in a text editor some time - the amount of extraneous code is unreal).Andrew wrote:You could also try to save as html document and "import" that into Flare.
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Re: Huge table - tricks for speeding it up
Sadly, in my experience it doesn't. (Would be cool if it did, tho...) Flare doesn't seem to perform much surgery on incoming HTML content other than adding what it needs to the <head> tag.Andrew wrote:I'm not trusting Microsoft's HTML (though in Office 2007 it's gotten much better) so much as I'm hoping Flare will clean a lot of it up on import. I haven't tried it before, but it's worth a shot.
Until next time....
Kevin Amery
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Kevin Amery
Certified MAD for Flare
Re: Huge table - tricks for speeding it up
Just wanted to say thank you for the tips. I copied out of excel and pasted as a table, and that worked great, and saved me gobs of time.