Matching styles between Word and InDesign?

In Microsoft Word, can you create new style names (both character AND paragraph) same as you can in InDesign? and if those names match those in an InDesign template you are flowing them into, will the text come in STYLED like they are set up in InDesign?

Anne-Marie Concepcion has produced a comprehensive tutorial on using Word and InDesign together. I would highly recommend anyone using these two applications to have a look at it:
http://www.lynda.com/InDesign-tutorials/Using-Word-InDesign-Together/122930-2.html?srchtrk =index:1%0Alinktypeid:2%0Aq:indesign%0Apage:1%0As:relevance%0Asa:true%0Aproducttypeid:2
(I haven't any connection with Lynda.com)
Derek

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Question about syncing styles between Word and RH HTML 7.The
printed Word format has Hdr/Ftr, TOC, Title Page stuff.
I understood that, when importing a Word .docx, RH creates
books for Heading 1s and Topic headings are Heading 2. That is why
both Word and RH templates use the same paragraph style names
(though the format in Word/print differs from that in RH/online).
I imported my Word file into a new RH HTML 7 project. The TOC
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the .htt from the RH 5 template project. I selected all 160 topics
in the Topic List pod and applied the corporate .htt template
(Topic Properties > General) AND (to be certain), the corporate
.css stylesheet (Topic Properties . Appearance).
This project doesn't have the same characteristics as the
base/master from RH 5 that uses those same format files. I even
imported the same skin. I get the banner, but not the styles.
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to) are Heading 1 styles, even though they were Heading 2s in Word.
(this breaks with my tribal knowledge of how RH imports
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blue, etc.) have taken on their own definitions--dunno where from,
tho.
Since I'm OCD about creating and using one style for each
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in Word or RH. I thought by "attaching" the .htt and the .css to
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navigation pane and icons imported. What happened to the styles?
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Hi Jim,
Don't know how useful my question is now, given that you posted over a year ago.
Do your RH X5 Word source docs use styles? If so, take a look here, and I detail how I have been able to import from RH X5 for Word to RH 7 HTML. (I'm currently still working on a leftover issue with Keywords and Subkeywords.)
One thing I have done which probably helped: while applying new standards to our documentation, we have removed almost all images (screen shots, etc.), and have only retained those images which don't have a text equivalent. The drastically reduced the import file size of my Word source docs. All my images were referenced via TrueCode, but upon importing to RH 7 HTML, there was so much less to be processed by RH 7 HTML, that the import went much more easily and quickly.
I hope this helps,
Marjorie

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Matching, syncing between iTunes and iPhone

I am "lucky" to be one of the new iPhone 5 owners, after switching back from two years with android. Part of the reason for my switch was iTunes Match, which has been a constant confusing dissappintment.
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I am trying to sync playlists from my mac to my iPhone 5, and then have my iphone stream/(download) the rest of the music I dont sync across through iTunes Match.
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With iTunes Match / IOS 6, as Songs are played from the iCloud (ie not those already downloaded in playlists) IOS 6 does in fact 'download' the Song to a local cache. In theory this cache should be managed by IOS 6 such that it does not overload your iDevice memory - Apple have not chosen to share exactly how this operates.
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Dreamweaver and placed it in a special table cell to duplicate the
affect in Dw.
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in Ps and Dw. All artwork was created on my Mac Pro running Leopard
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When I test my design in Firefox it looks perfect. When I
copy the site folder over to Dw on my Windows XP machine and test
in IE it also looks perfect. It also looks perfect when I open the
design up in Dw on the Windows machine (in the document window).
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my Mac.
I'm perplexed. I'm somewhat new to Dw, but I've been using Ps
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workflow. I recently upgraded my Mac to 10.5.2 and I'm wondering if
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picking windows will close leaving the pull-down menus
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In Photoshop, are you working in RBG or CMYK mode? RGB output
is the mode
for web graphics. What type of graphic are you using when you
Save to Web
As - gif, jpg or png? Jpg and png will give you better color
matching
control than gif. Gif is capable of producing only 216 web
safe colors (256
minus about 40 colors which are reserved by the various
operating systems or
are not rendered by browsers). Jpg and png can produce 16
million (24 bit)
Truecolor. If you are attempting to color match your web
graphics with hex
#color codes for backgrounds, then your best bet is to use
jpg or png.
http://alt-web.com/HexColorChart.shtml
--Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
www.alt-web.com
"anyoneSeenMaiTai" <[email protected]> wrote
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news:[email protected]...
> I've generated a simple shadow around my page design in
Photoshop (the
shadow
> blends into the background color via a soft gradient).
I've imported a
small
> section of the shadow into Dreamweaver and placed it in
a special table
cell to
> duplicate the affect in Dw.
>
> This is very simple. I'm using web-safe colors (#336699)
both in Ps and
Dw.
> All artwork was created on my Mac Pro running Leopard
(10.5.2).
>
> When I test my design in Firefox it looks perfect. When
I copy the site
folder
> over to Dw on my Windows XP machine and test in IE it
also looks perfect.
It
> also looks perfect when I open the design up in Dw on
the Windows machine
(in
> the document window).
>
> HOWEVER ... the colors do NOT match in the Dw document
window on my Mac.
Nor
> do they match when I test the page using Safari on my
Mac.
>
> I'm perplexed. I'm somewhat new to Dw, but I've been
using Ps and Gl for
a
> long time. I think I know how to match colors in the
workflow. I recently
> upgraded my Mac to 10.5.2 and I'm wondering if this is a
bug?
>
> One other thing ... the pull-down menus in the Dw color
selection areas
aren't
> always functional. Sometimes the color picking windows
will close leaving
the
> pull-down menus unresponsive. You have to hit the escape
key to exit. If
you
> are very careful you can get the menus to work using the
middle mouse
button
> (I'm using a wireless Mighty Mouse).
>
> Can anyone offer me guidance ... or has anyone else
experienced these
problems
> in Dw? TIA.
>

Font problems between Word and MAC

I used MS Word on Windows PC and created lot of documents using TSCu Inaimathi tamil font. When I open those files in my MAC, its all weird characters. How do i fix this? Also, when I create new files in MAC, using the same font, I can read it in Windows.
Can someone help?
Thanks
dheepa
Macbook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.5)

When I
open those files in my MAC, its all weird characters.
There could be two issues:
If the text is Unicode, then MS Word for Mac can't handle it (MS Mac products can't do any Unicode Indic script yet). Try opening the doc with TextEdit instead.
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http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1200527#1200527

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