RE: Help Documents to transferred to MS Word

[Steve Segerstrom <SSegerstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds like you've got the basics to get them to word. I will share my
experiences after getting them to word:

Plan on about a 1/2 day to a day per manual of formatting changes depending
upon how picky you are. I don't know if this was because of how I
transferred them or how they we're laid out originally.

For example, I got all of my spaces down and end of paragraph markers on
each line. Using mass replace in word I stripped out all of the extra blanks
(change 2blanks to 1blanks) and the end of paragraph markers and justified
each paragraph. Tables and indentations we're kind of re-arranged and called
for some review by a knowledgeable person. 

I had a temp work part time over a couple weeks and we came up with some
pretty good manuals; even retaining the copyright information, etc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill [SMTP:brobins3d@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 4:18 PM
> To:   BPCS-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Help Documents to transferred to MS Word
> 
> > We would like to have the help documents for all the modules such as
> INV,ORD,MDM,etc. in MS word. as we would like to modify the help and add
> few
> flow charts as per business processes. And distribute to our users for
> their
> reference purpose.
> >
> > Is it possible to transfer these help documents to MS word. please guide
> us
> how to this, if possible.
> 
> Here's one way of doing it:
> Create a PDM option and define the option like this:
> CPYTOPCD FROMFILE(&L/&F) TOFLR(BPCSDOCS) FROMMBR(&N) TODOC(&N)
> 
> You can substitute a different folder name than BPCSDOCS if you have
> something
> more appropriate.  If you don't have any folders to use, then you can use
> this
> command to create it:
> CRTFLR FLR(BPCSDOCS)  TEXT('bpcs documentation files')
> 
> You would then do a WrkMbrPDM libraryname (specifying the library where
> the DOC
> file resides).  For every document you wish to copy, you would place the 2
> character designator defined above in the Opt column (if you wish to do
> all of
> them, then place the designator in the first member and then hit F13 to
> copy it
> all the way down).  You now have a PC text file for every one of your
> documentation files so either leave them there or move them to a more
> appropriate place and modify them with Word as needed.
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
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