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Yes. 

FrameMaker 7 allegedly does a much better job with Word tables. And, it brings XLS import to the table, also. 

However, do this: in Word, convert your table to tab-delimited text. 

Select all the tab-delimited text and copy. 

Paste Special in FrameMaker, choose "text." 

Select the tab-delimited text in FrameMaker and use convert text to table. Select the table format you want to go and the number of heading rows, etc. Whammo! You are done. 

Easy, eh? 

Another route is to print a PDF from Word and import that into FrameMaker. Although, remember this will be treated as a graphic. 

And, maybe there's some third-party tools that would help you, but methinks ordering FM7 would be better than that. 

Cheers, 

Sean