Importing text from word into indesign3

I am importing text from a word document that has lots of footnotes in it into an indesign3 file - I need to keep some of the formatting from the word document i.e italics and tabs however I need to be able to edit and reposition the 'word' footnotes within indesign - I don't seem to be able to do this without turning off the footnotes editing completely before importing? Is there a way around this?

Word is wordprocessor. iWeb is an application to create webpages with.
Copy/pasting formatted text always has unexpected results.
To overcome that, save your Word document as a html file.
Open it in a browser and then copy/paste the text.
iWeb will retain the formatting.
And Lion is an operating system. Just like a Mercedes is a car. Neither has anything to do with your problem.

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Is it possible to import or copy text from Word into InDesign and retain italics or text that is indented in the Word version?

just wanna edit wrote:
Thank you, I think I understand the idea of "place" (which is what I would call "paste")
The two are not at all the same. Paste involves copying text to the clipboard and then pasting from the clipboard. Place is an import operation.

Auotmating Text from Word into InDesign

Here is my situation: I am the graphic artist and layout person for the company that I work for. We produce layouts that have a pretty consistent format. Each layout has definite text sections. These text sections are written by the research editor and put into a single word document. I then have to copy and past the various text sections into the layout in InDesign.
I know that if my Research Editors worked in InCopy it would elminate the need for me to copy and paste the text from word doc into the the layout document. The problem is that one of the editors is a contract worker that is outside the office.
I was wondering if there was some way to set up a template in word. The idea would be that once the document is finished it could be imported into InDesign in a way that it would automatically populate the the text sections in the layout.

Well you know what I mean, by copy and paste. I place the text in first to preserve the formatting.
This seems backwards, to me. Is the "formatting" in the Word document based on styles? If it is, you can map your InDesign styles to your Word styles on import. If it's not, then I find it much faster to change the formatting into styles immediately upon import.
If you're not using any defined styles at all in your InDesign document, then yeah, I guess that copying and pasting is faster and a better way to preserve the manually applied formatting in Word. But why do that, when using well-defined styles in ID can be significantly faster?

Selecting and importing text from Word

Hi..
I am interested in importing text from Microsoft Word into labview.
The text will be identified by a particular 'style'. I have seen examples of reading text marked by 'bookmarks' however this doesn't appear to be sufficient or flexible enough for this application.
I have tried adapting the 'bookmark' code (using different property/invoke nodes) but can't seem to find something that works in a similar way.
Just wondering if anyone has already tried something similar.
Any help is much appreciated.
Regards,
Mike
(Labview 8.2.1 + Report Generation Toolkits)

Hi Mark,
The plan was to be able to sift through text in a Word document for blocks of text that match a particular 'style' (determined by us) and import the text into Labview to populate VI descriptions/free labels etc.
I have adapted some code I have found to be able to cycle through table rows/columns and be able to match text/string patterns, however matching the 'style' property should make this operation a little cleaner or perhaps give us more control over what strings are matched.
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How can I import text from Word including paragraph indents?

I'm using Captivate 7.
I need to import text from a series of documents written in Microsoft Word.
When I copy and paste most of the formatting is retained. Bold, italics and underline import perfectly but I lose the indented paragraphs. They all become left aligned.
Is there a way to import the indented first lines in the paragraphs?
Thanks in advance.

Lilybiri, sorry it took me so long to get back to you. Life sometimes interferes with living.
Thanks for sharing your opinions. Your deep and penetrating insights have changed my life forever. As in: "...that people expect ..." Gee; I've pondered that for years. Now that you've opened my eyes to "what people expect" I can let that go and concentrate on something else. Like, is cheese REALLY binding?
With your helpful and concerned attitude I'm sure you'll be glad to know that my problem has been solved. Not by anything from Adobe; the company or the forum, but by simply finding another program that works as it should.
By the way, I marked my own answer correct as it was clear that there is no answer and I just wanted to close the thread. Actually, after I reread what I said, I realized my answer IS correct. So, I'll stand by it.
Thanks again, it's been interesting.
So long Lilybiri, and good-bye Adobe Captivate.

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Hi There,
I have already a lot of content in Word Courses. I can off course cut and paste content from Word to Captivate but how can I keep the formatting of the styles from Word. Or do I have to paste it as plain text and modify it in Captivate. Is for example Captivate also using some styles like Word does.
Hope one of you could help me.
Regards,
Erik

just wanna edit wrote:
Thank you, I think I understand the idea of "place" (which is what I would call "paste")
The two are not at all the same. Paste involves copying text to the clipboard and then pasting from the clipboard. Place is an import operation.

Importing text from Word in Mac

Hello,
Any suggestions for speedy efficient way to import text to
Mac Version of DW? I notice that the 'import Word Doc' option is
only available for Windows users.
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Julie

In CS 3 you can Command C and paste from TextEdit en Word but
not the from the last version of Word. So I use Textedit a lot.
Just paste on the right place in Design View. It strips
automatically most formatting like bold and italic.
I suppose it will be the same in CS4.

Importing text from Word to ID

Hello. Which are the best way to import text files? I mean, step by step, from Microsoft Word to ID? It is a headache when you apply an style and booom all the italics and bolds dissapear... Sometimes it works fine when i apply a style, but sometimes it does a disaster. From now, I am really curious about how indesign thinks to resolve the import cases and the work of styles.
1) Why sometimes erase all the word local formats and sometimes does not?
2) Is it a problem using .doc, .docx or .rtf to save text files an import?
3) Is the problem that you work with .TTF fonts (like Arial, Times, Courier) from word and on ID you use OpenType Fonts?
4) What is the NON-FAIL way to do an excellent import? from Microsoft Word to ID
Thanks
Alejandro

yo_soy_tu_padre007 wrote:
1) Why sometimes erase all the word local formats and sometimes does not?
When placing, you can select to either preserve 'local' formatting or remove it. Local formatting is "anything done without using a style", just as it is in InDesign. As Ellis says, check your import settings.
In addition, even if you 'preserve' local formatting, it's very easy to accidentally remove it in InDesign when you apply another style. If common attributes such as bold and italics are not applied through character styles in the original Word document, you should preserve them yourself by doing that in InDesign.
2) Is it a problem using .doc, .docx or .rtf to save text files an import?
Yes, on all three. There is no single format that InDesign works best with. If a Word document causes me trouble, I try the other options until I get not exactly the "best" result, but more accurately a "least bad".
3) Is the problem that you work with .TTF fonts (like Arial, Times, Courier) from word and on ID you use OpenType Fonts?
Not in the least. Actually, you can use TTF fonts as well as OTF fonts with InDesign. The import is totally indifferent of the fonts used -- it doesn't matter what you used in Word, you'll get the same fonts in the imported text. That is, except when it's bitmap fonts, which you cannot use in InDesign, or when the author italicized or bolded text in Word where the actual Bold or Italic font doesn't exist. But even then, InDesign will happily import the text -- it will just have an 'unavailable' font assigned to it, and you'll be notified of that.
4) What is the NON-FAIL way to do an excellent import? from Microsoft Word to ID
I would like to know the answer to that as well. The import filter has problems with tables, footnotes, endnotes, automatic references, and new page codes, for .docx, .rtf, and .doc files.

Pasting text from Word into Apex Textarea

Hi Folks,
I have a client that wanted to transform their Word forms (something like customer survey) into Apex screens.. every thing went great but they noticed that when they try to copy text from the Word forms into Apex textareas some characters will show as an up-side-down question mark. Some characters are the apostrophe , consecutive dots (...) and so on. I don't know what is the best way to handle that, I am thinking about writing a function that escapes those characters for a passed text and add up decoding to it every time users encounter a news bad character..but maybe somebody has a better idea...
Thanks,
Sam

We had the same problem. If you can't update the character set, which is usually a big deal, then you can always use javascript to change the textfield or text area before the user clicks save. We have onchange events on all of our items to catch when an item saves and sets a flag to do an autosave when the click somewhere else in the application. You could use a similar function to translate the characters on the browser before they hit the database.
If you're going to be searching on this data, you probably don't want to store the special characters anyway. They will have to type in the characters to search and some of the MS characters can be misleading and cause them to not find what they're looking for.
The array configured_values is a string array where the first index is the bad character and the second index is the value to replace it with
function madeChange(e)
{ document.getElementById('P0_MADE_CHANGE').value='TRUE';
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Edited by: YodaHart on Jul 21, 2010 10:18 PM

Importing text from Word file while keeping formatting

I have text set up to convert to Goudy Oldstyle. When I try to import formatted text from a Word file, the italics don't translate to Goudy Oldstyle italic. It becomes Goudy Italic and then reads as a conflict. How would I be able to reformat just the italics?

Find Font is also in CS2 (Type > Find Font). Very easy, very simple.
In CS2, Find Font doesn't have the same Redefine Style functionality
that it does in CS3, but you can still find a missing font or font
variant and replace it with something that's not missing. You would have
to redefine styles manually, but you can use Find Font to figure out
which styles need redefining. (That is, if you've used styles; we don't
know yet because you haven't said.)
Kenneth Benson
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www.pegtype.com

Problem pasting text from Word into Mail

When I compose text in Word and paste it into Mail, paragraphs are separated by spaces that weren't in the original Word document and I have to do a lot of work to get rid of them. If I compose or paste the text in TextEdit and then copy the message into Mail, there's no problem. Is there a fix so I can just compose my messages in Word and then transfer them into Mail?

Edwin Bernbaum wrote:
It happens when I use past and match style as well. Any other ideas?
Last month I started a message thread on what may be the same issue:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11083007
There's a mention there of the Mail menu option Format -> Make Plain Text, which may help you.
I filed a "bug report" with Apple (http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html) about quirky spacing in Mail messages and the lack of any editing feature to control such spacing. Maybe you'd want to do the same.

Imported text from word, all missing fonts found, but still have pink boxes for Turkish language

Hi,
I placed a document from word. The body font is ITC Garamond. Apparently ITC Garamond doesn't have some Turkish characters. Adobe Garamond however, does. So I was going through and selecting each pink box and changing the character to a new character style I created which is the Adobe Garamond Font. Surely there's an easier way to do this rather than me selecting each pink box? Can GREP do this? I would use the Find Font dialogue, but it shows all fonts as being fine, it doesn't show any missing fonts. So this seems to just be a wierd issue with ITC Garamond not having those special characters.
I know what you're thinking, why not just make my body font Adobe Garamond Pro.... Well I can't right now. Not for this job. Maybe in the future I will, but for not it has to stay ITC Garamond condensed Book.
Also, I should note that in the preflight panel, InDesign does not show the document as having any missing Glyphs either.... so Peter's Glyph script won't work.
Thanks in advance.

In your case I would not add or change a character style, change your paragraph style. A mix between 2 similar fonts looks terrible. You might need a character style for language purposes, to get through with hyphenation correctly, but this is a different thing.
To change a font globally go to search font and replace and redefine styles.
But if you really does not want to change the font you can crate a character style. And in your paragraph style go to GREP styles and select this chara style and write all glyphs and letters where you need this character style.
Take care, if you use a different font you might have to scale in advanced properties, so that a glyph from the other form fits to the rest of the text.

Importing and retaining greek text from word into IndCS3

Have a word document in Greek. Word file is in Times New Roman and views in word correctly as font is loaded. I wish to import into Indesign CS3 and format accordingly, but, when I do it does not keep greek language it comes in as all pink missing text. Have tried selecting greek language in character palette but does not fix problem. Does anyone have any suggestions?
thanks
sonja

>Have tried selecting greek language
What would you expect from that? Auto-translation?
>all pink missing text
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i has
Greek characters --, and you'll be fine.

Importing text from word.doc into iweb

This results in a graphic which cannot be updated. iWeb help suggests
Identify items that will be converted to graphics when published:
Choose iWeb > Preferences.
Select “Show text imaging indicator.”
iWeb> Prefs Click on 'Show text imaging indicator' but no change once I have done so. The text still appears as a graphic unable to be ammended.
Any suggestions? Or is this something to do with Lion?

Word is wordprocessor. iWeb is an application to create webpages with.
Copy/pasting formatted text always has unexpected results.
To overcome that, save your Word document as a html file.
Open it in a browser and then copy/paste the text.
iWeb will retain the formatting.
And Lion is an operating system. Just like a Mercedes is a car. Neither has anything to do with your problem.

How to import text from Word without any style?

Hi all.
I'm working with a copy writer who has a tendency to apply a return on every line on the Word document.
How can I over ride it so that I don't have to go back and eliminate every return in InDesign?
Thanks!

I use a text editing tool called TextWrangler by Bare Bone Software.
http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/
Open in Word
Copy/Paste into Text Wrangler
Use the
Text > Remove Line Breaks
Copy/Paste into InDesign
This will strip ALL formatting, and remove those pesky extra returns.
-mt
Any chance that you can educate the copy editor that the computer with MS Word is not a fancy Typerwriter and that there is no need to manually perform a carriage return?

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