Import

[Tacuma]

I have a really huge MS Word document. It's more than 1000 pages and it's filled with small texts that I want to import in a database. It will take me forever to copy and paste everthing. Especially because I also have lots of footnotes in the texts.

Is there a way to import everything automatically? Should I change it to a .txt file or do I have to do something else?

[bcooney]

Why are you bringing such a beast into FM?

[comment]

It's more than 1000 pages and it's filled with small texts

That really doesn't say much. The important questions here are:

1. How so you intend to break up the data, in terms of records and fields (or perhaps tables, records and fields)?

2. Is the document marked up in such way that allows it to be easily converted into a format that Filemaker can understand (during import and/or by scripted parsing following import)?

[Tacuma]

I found someone in real life who will help me, but thanks for trying to help me! :

[bcooney]

I always suspected that comment wasn't a part of the real world!

[IdealData]

I think we would all be interested to know how you will be helped - that's how we got to be where we are today.

[comment]

Indeed, reports of my life have been greatly exaggerated.

(with apologies to Mr. Clemens)

[Tacuma]

I asked the guy who took over, but it seems that he didn't find a solution either. He copied and pasted everything. :confused:

[bcooney]

And we wonder...now what? Looking forward to the printing questions.

[Tusif Ahmad]

Hi,

I will recommend that you upload here about 2 or 3 pages and let me see what type of data is and what I can do. Without looking its very hard to suggest.

Regards,

Tusif