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I am facing a problem in conversion of completed and formatted tables from word 97 to frame 7. I am on a PC using windows 98. 
My process to date has been to copy the complete word table and then do a paste special into frame as RTF. This has worked good in the past and the reformatting was easy. What is happening now is that when I paste into frame as RTF, many of table rows turn into individual tables. This seems to parallel the cell formatting in the word table when a row is different in its cell merging from the one above and below it. If the row cell merging is the same from row to row in word, then things paste fine into Frame. I have pasted the cells into excell and then into frame, but I am doing extensive reformatting again with re-merging the cells. 

I would deal with it except I have about 100 tables to do this way and little time to do it-of course. each word table averages 50 rows and 12 columns, and all I want to do is to get them into frame as editabe tables that look about the same. Help if anyone has an idea here. I need some way to reformat or change something in word or frame. I can change the word documents as they are copies anyway.