### 6.7.3 Converting sidehead formats

If your document uses FrameMaker sideheads, you have some choices to make, because Word does not support sideheads as such. Mif2Go offers four options:

[WordOptions]

; Sideheads = Left (simplest), Indent, Frame (most accurate),

; or Normal

Options for Sideheads have the following effects:

Left | Sets the sideheads flush left in the main text column, which is widened to the full page width (less margins).
Indent | Uses left and right indents to create a sidehead-column effect. The sideheads are all right-indented, and the body is left-indented. Heads that span both columns continue to do so. The sideheads are aligned with their bottoms, instead of their tops, even with the top of their related text.
Frame | (Not available for WinHelp) Does an excellent emulation of FrameMaker sideheads most of the time, provided the sideheads are always on the left; do not even try it if you have sideheads set to “Inside” or “Outside”. This option works by placing all sideheads in text-relative Word frames, and narrowing the text column to duplicate the FrameMaker layout. Mif2Go undertakes some serious reformatting to achieve this effect. For example, the Space Above for both the sidehead and its text paragraph must be set to 0; otherwise they will not align correctly if they happen to fall at the top of a page. Mif2Go changes the Space Below of the previous paragraph to compensate. The spanning heads are also in frames, anchored to a dummy paragraph in the text column so that they do not conflict with any following sideheads.
Normal | Uses whatever the paragraph format specifies, which is usually the wrong thing to do.

Fine-tune sideheads

You can specify additional fine-tuning options to position sideheads in the output document. If you specify a value other than No for ForceSideHeadPos, that value applies if you have also specified Indent or Frame for Sideheads:

[WordOptions]

; ForceSideHeadPos = No (default), Left, Right, Inner, or Outer

ForceSideHeadPos=No

Span all columns

If your document uses a FrameMaker paragraph format that spans all columns including sideheads, Mif2Go inserts an anchor paragraph, so the text box containing the spanning paragraph does not become entwined with the text box containing a directly following sidehead. If there is always body text in between, Mif2Go anchors the text box for the spanner to the body paragraph. (Word does not handle correctly two text boxes anchored to the same place):

[WordOptions]

; SHSpannerAnchors = Yes (default,

; anchor paras after framed spanners)

SHSpannerAnchors=Yes

Align sideheads

You can attempt to improve the way sidehead text boxes align to body paragraphs:

[WordOptions]

; SHVertAdjust = twips to move sidehead framed text down (neg for up)

SHVertAdjust=0

| 6.7.2 Merging paragraph formats |  | 6.7.4 Converting run-in headings |