house the graphics and table for those records that have them. Thanks again
> 1) Create a separate pdf for each regulation, with just the piece of the
> doc
> that pertains to the regulation. Store that in a container field with each
> rcd. File size would be increase by the size of all the pdf's, plus
> overhead. But I would think that this would be fairly static. Also, as
> the
> reg's change, then only the piece that actually changes would need to be
> replaced. This should also be considered - when it changes, is it easy to
> find out what parts actually changed?
>
> 2) My other thought was you might be able to create a single pdf and create
> "bookmarks". But then I don't know how to open a pdf and jump directly to
> a
> given bookmark.
>
> --
> Richard DeShong, Athletic Study Center, UCBerkeley
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fmpexperts Beverly Voth
>
> Ah, Salman, now that helps to see what you want. You'd have to have
> "internal links" to the regulations. Perhaps the PDF would be a way to go.
> You can (with ADOBE) insert links to portions of a PDF document. Perhaps
> then you can preview with OPEN Url [ ]. But you'd need "local" reference to
> the document.
>
> If other means, you'd need to break apart the regulations and still need
> exteral versions of the document to pull up. Perhaps OLE. Let's see what
> the
> list has to say about this development (your WHY...)
> :)
>
> Beverly
>
> On 6/15/09 7:12 AM, "Salman Maidan" <
[hidden email]> wrote in whole or
> in part:
>
> > I might well be going about this the wrong way, so your WHY question is
> very
> > useful indeed. Basically I have a huge word manual which is full of
> > regulations. I simply want to copy each regulation in a record of it own
> in
> > FMP database so it can be referenced easily by presenting the users with
> a
> > list of the regulation numbers in a portal, He/She click a button and
> open
> > the appropriate regulation.
> >
> > Now if I can leave the regulations in the word doc. and link to them that
> > will suite my purpose, however I would want the word document to open at
> the
> > appropriate page and the appropriate regulation, hence my copy and
> pasting
> > them in FMP. BUT if there is an easy way to do this then I am all ears.
> >
> > Salman
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Beverly Voth <
[hidden email]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> My question back is why? I mean what is the purpose of getting all that?
> >> Will you be pushing back out at some point? Why not into a container
> field?
> >> And you probably won't get the graphics, but what happens if the word
> >> document is saved as XML format? Would that get your "text"?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Beverly Voth
> >> mailto:
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> >> tel:(606) 258-7399
> >> --
> >>
> >>
> >> On Jun 14, 2009, at 12:30 PM, Salman Maidan <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Experts,
> >>> WinXp - FMPA 10
> >>>
> >>> I am trying to copy contents of an MS word document which can contain
> >>> text,
> >>> graphics, and tables, and paste all that into FMP text field. However I
> >>> see
> >>> that graphics don't copy at all and tables only copy the content of the
> >>> table but not the outlines. I understand that is because text fields
> are
> >>> purely for text characters. I tried using a container field but too
> many
> >>> difficulties with scroll bar and if I am not mistaken size of file.
> >>>
> >>> My question: is there any way to overcome that and be able to copy all
> the
> >>> content as is. I know FMP is full of good tricks, but I don't know them
> >>> all.
> >>> ;-)
> >>>
> >>> Regards
> >>> --
> >>> Salman Maidan
> >>>
> >>
> >
>
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