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Art, thanks. That is not working either. There are 'text boxes' in the Word doc that have a background color and stroke, as well as colored text within. Following the RTF Word > Import to FM > Save as MIF > Copy Paste from MIF to template or import formats from template to MIF procedure you suggest leaves me with horizontal lines of an unknown nature and peculiar spacing as well for all the text that had been inside the Word 'text boxes.'

I found that if I select a paragraph with the strange lines that had been inside the Word text box and applying an FM style the weird lines and spacing disappears and some of the colors come through, others do not. None of the bolding comes through.

I am also tasked with recreating the text boxes (there has to be a very close fidelity to the original Word doc) and more problems there. For instance (if not obvious, I am an FM newbie), if I draw a text box and use the 'pen' tool selection to apply a 1 pt. black stroke to the frame, I am unable to then apply a backgrond color to the text frame without losing the border stroke. Or in the reverse, if I apply a background color to the frame, I am unable to apply a different stroke/border color. This is not a conversion issue, but I cannot find a syllable on the subject in FM Help.

Also, if I click on the color icon in the tool palette, it shows a partial list and I am unable to scroll to select a color lower down in the list.

In any event, recreating colors, bolding, text frames with background color and different border/stroke color for each of dozens upon dozens of text frames is a mountain of work, and that is only one of many such docs in need of conversion to FM.

Any and all help or guidance here is much appreciated.

regards,

stevenjs
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