### 6.1.5 Developing a workflow using Word for reviews

If you make style changes in Word after conversion, you have to do this task over and over, each time you revise the document. Instead, make all changes in FrameMaker itself, before conversion, and use a conversion template to change styles; see §2.4 Importing formats from a conversion template. Mif2Go imports the template during conversion, without altering your original FrameMaker files; only the MIF used by Mif2Go is affected by the import.

Do not try to maintain in Word any documents Mif2Go converts from FrameMaker. The conversion is fast and easy; do your ongoing document work in FrameMaker, and produce Word copies on demand for reviewers, following these guidelines:

• Make sure reviewers turn on revision tracking in Word; or turn it on for them (see §6.16 Turning on revision tracking in Word).

• Make sure reviewers turn off View > Hidden Text in Word. Mif2Go uses Word hidden text to emulate some FrameMaker features; see §6.10.8 Hiding content in Word.

• When you get an edited file back, open it in Word and look at the changed areas.

• To bring new material into your FrameMaker document, copy and paste as Plain Text.

• Handle all formatting in FrameMaker.

• Import any new graphics by reference from their original graphics files, not from the images in Word.

Writers should evaluate each Word revision, then incorporate acceptable changes into FrameMaker using plain-text (not rich-text) copy/paste. This does not take as long as you might think, and it is a very good idea for writers to review changes carefully. Editing changes back into the FrameMaker document ensures that this important step is carried out with the authorial attention it needs.

See also:

§34.6 Supporting document review in Word

| 6.1.4 Migrating a document from FrameMaker to Word |  | 6.2 Setting up a print RTF project |