Importing Word files

Which versions of Microsoft Word can Pages import?
Thanks.

Good question. Between Word 97 and Word 2003 the file formats changed only a little but there were some changes. The big change came in Office 2007. I've successfully opened documents created in Word 97, Word 98, Word X, Word 2003, Word 2007, and Word 2008. That also includes templates. But some items don't import properly. For example, Word Art from 2007 and 2008 won't import - you just get a place holder. (I don't recall whether Word Art always failed in this fashion, I just recently noticed it.)
If your file is a simple word processing document you will usually successfully import the file okay but the more heavily it is formatted, the more the file appears to be a DTP document the more likely problems will crop up. These problems can be anything from subtle formatting errors to missing items all the way through Pages locking up or crashing to the desktop.

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Can no longer import Word files into InDesign

Hello,
For many months I have been importing Word files into InDesign CS3 (Mac OSX 10.4.11) with no trouble, but I started having a problem yesterday.
When importing a 17-page Word file with 16 footnotes, I got none of the text and only the footnote numbers. This is what I get in InDesign:
12345678910111213141516
(Endnotes)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
These are the things I've tried already: restarting, deleting preferences, changing the import options, using CS2, importing someone else's Word file, importing a Word file that I imported successfully a couple of months ago. None of this works.
It has been suggested that I save the Word file as rtf, but since I have 200 files to import and I'm using Word's character styles for italics, bold, small caps, etc., I'd rather try to fix this problem.
Can someone help?
Thanks,
Tina

I am using indesign CS2 and i'm trying to import a Word document into a new chapter for a book i'm laying out. it's about 30 pages, but there are at least 80 foot notes. i'm able to get about 1/2 of the document with the footnotes to flow correctly, then EVERYTHING disappears. the only way i've been able to get the remaining text to appear is by adding characters to the text. i'll hit "vvvvvvvvvvvv" a bunch of times and "magically" a little chunk of text and it's footnotes appears. then the ole disappearing act happens. so i do it again. i'm able to get all the text to appear finally, but when i delete the "vvvvvvvvvv" from the places i inserted them, the text disappears again. i have no idea why this is happening or how to fix it. any ideas?
thanks so much,
travis

Issues w/ notes when importing Word files; better as RTF?

Hi,
I've always had issues when importing Word files into InDesign CS4, and after just getting CS5 it seems that they haven't been eliminated. Since it looks as though I'm going to have to just deal with these issues (I have to accept Word files from a wide variety of sources, so I can't move to an InCopy workflow, unfortunately) I thought I'd ask for some advice.
After reading some suggestions on this forum I began making sure to accept all tracked changes and then saving to a .docx file before importing. But I have still been having trouble with disappearing endnotes (ie all notes in the text up to a certain number just get lost, even though the references at the end of the text are complete); and often the first note (the reference, not just the number) appears in an anchored text box within the text. Disappearing note numbers are the most frustrating, because it's easy to miss until much later in the layout process. Is anyone else having these problems? In fact, in a few cases saving to .docx seems to -cause- more problems than it solves.
In any case, it seems that saving as an RTF file can produce better results, but I'm a bit wary about doing this all the time in case information gets lost when moving to RTF, or in case there are problems that I just haven't noticed yet in importing RTF files.
So, long story short, is there any reason I -shouldn't- save all my Word files as RTF files to avoid problems when importing them in InDesign?
If anyone has other suggestions for steps to follow when importing Word files (besides dealing with tracked changes and saving as .docx or RTF) please feel free to mention those as well!

I don't know much about your particular case (endnotes) so I can't offer much in the way of specific advice. I also don't know where your Word files are coming from, but for me the best workflow is when
1) I make an ID template
2) I export an RTF from that template
3) People use those RTF templates in Word and fill 'em with text
4) People send me Word-edited RTFs
5) I place those RTFs
It's useful to know what you will lose when going from DOC -> DOCX -> place in INDD
or
DOC -> RTF -> INDD
but the only way to know for sure is to test with your content. Some things break when saving to RTF from Word, but I've found that those things are mostly Word-specific stuff that I wouldn't want in any file to be placed in ID. Text boxes, WordArt (faugh), other things that MS has spot-welded onto the side of their word processing app.

Import word files in InDesign but only Form Text or selected styles

Hi Guys,
I have this magazine I design a few times a year and the articles are sent to me as word-files with tables they have to fill in in order to know who the author is, what the title will be etc.
I would like to find a way to easily import the content of their articles etc. in Indesign and I found out that importing Word files is simple as goodbye. Me happy!
But now I constantly have to copy-paste their article text out of the table and paste it elsewhere in the InDesign file, so I thought: isn't there a possibility to, while importing the word file, select what styles should be imported (so that the instructions I put in the template for their word articles for instance won't be put into the InDesign file but only the forms they fill in) or can I setup the importing of it to only import the form field text (if the word file would be set up as a form with protected items fields they can fill in?).
Many thanks!
Bob

I am using indesign CS2 and i'm trying to import a Word document into a new chapter for a book i'm laying out. it's about 30 pages, but there are at least 80 foot notes. i'm able to get about 1/2 of the document with the footnotes to flow correctly, then EVERYTHING disappears. the only way i've been able to get the remaining text to appear is by adding characters to the text. i'll hit "vvvvvvvvvvvv" a bunch of times and "magically" a little chunk of text and it's footnotes appears. then the ole disappearing act happens. so i do it again. i'm able to get all the text to appear finally, but when i delete the "vvvvvvvvvv" from the places i inserted them, the text disappears again. i have no idea why this is happening or how to fix it. any ideas?
thanks so much,
travis

HT4991 When I try to import word files from email it says importing then few seconds later shuts pages app

When I try to import word files from email it says importing then few seconds later shuts pages app

Peggy, thanks for the try. I think you are on to something about the multitude of sections in the sample document.
I think the many many sections are a result of the formating to make the word document look just like the legal case book (multiple columns of text, special sections, graphical headnotes summaries etc). The doc opens just fine in Word for windows 2000, XP and 2003. Maybe I can request a NON columnar flowing word doc that will be possible to open with Pages 3.
In the meantime, the other good options for these legal document downloads, PDF and HTML are not good options for processing the files with Pages. I sure hope the interoperability of Pages 3 is enhanced soon. I would rather not buy the Office 2008 for the Mac if I could stick with Apple's products.
By the way, do you know...... is there a business, marketing, or technical reason (maybe all 3)) why Text Editor seems to have greater capabilities than Pages 3 (like HTML and similar functions)?
Thanks, Brian

Batch importing Word files into separate InDesign files

Hi,
I have what I though would be a fairly common question, but I can't seem to find any information about it in this forum or on the web.
I have a folder of Word files (over 100, which is why I don't want to do this manually) and one InDesign CS4 file that I'd like to use as a template (basically it's just a couple of pages with some threaded text boxes and a few images). I would like to write a script that will go through the Word files, one by one, and pull each into the text box in the InDesign file before saving it as a new copy (ideally with the same name as the Word file). So, if I have 100 Word files and one InDesign file in a folder, I'd like to be able to run a script and end up with 100 new InDesign files.
I think I can deal with importing and placing the text, and saving the file again. It's mostly the question of using javascript to go through a folder to find all of the filenames so that I can pass the name to the import file command that is confusing me.
Oh, I'm on a Mac with OS 10.6 and using InDesign CS4.
Thanks!

Before reinstalling (which is most often unneeded) it would be useful to test the way the app behave when it is used in an other User Account.
If it behave flawlessly, no need to reinstall it.
If it doesn't, it *_may be useful_* to reinstall it but it's not sure.
Nothing prove that the problem is really linked to the installed application's files.
It may be linked to a file built on the fly like preferences or fonts cache…
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 3 décembre 2010 15:55:58

How can i import word file to Indesign cs6 to create index?

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I designed a book in indesign cs6 which is about 300 pages. And the writer has sent the index file in word file. Entering every topic to index is impossible. And it needs to find which word in which page. How can i import that word file to index and generate and index ?

http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/899-how-to-import-index-entries-from-word-to-indesign/

RH8 & Office 2010 import Word file error/failure

We are running RH8.02.208 on XP. We just upgraded to Office 2010. When we try to use file/import Word Document we are getting this error message
Word is installed correctly, and this kills the process.
Does anyone have an idea why we have hit this solid brick wall? And how to get around it? Thank you!!!

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Importing Word File

How do you import a word file onto a page -- not the text,
but the actual file, that users can then download to their PC?
Thanks
SB

Unless you're building your site for a company intranet, I
wouldn't ask
users to download MS Word doc files for a whole list of
reasons. PDF offers
better rendering, it's cross platform compatible, and almost
everybody has
the free Acrobat reader. Just my 2 cents.
--Nancy
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> How do you import a word file onto a page -- not the
text, but the actual
file, that users can then download to their PC?
>
> Thanks
>
> SB

Importing word file into InDesign problems

I use the following code:
myText.Place("C:\Development\memoTest Assignments\temp.docx"), the doc file will become
Objective
Experience
Education
Statement
although original doc file is
Objective
Experience
Education
Statement
It seems it will cause bullet/numbering problem when place a word file into inDesingn
Any idea?
Thanks.

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Importing Word Files With linked Excel files

I have a word document with linked excel files that appear as linked images in word. When these images are clicked it opens it up in Excel where I can edit them which is fine. However, I would like to import the word doc into adobe indesign with editable tables - not images. Is there a way I can do this?
Importing, exporting, converting. Nothing seems to work besides manually bring in the separate excel doc in one by one but that will be very time consuming at my end.
Thanks for any feedback.

AFAIK, that won't work. InDesign doesn't support OLE.
You may need to convert those Excel tables to Word tables before placing into ID.
Bob

Importing word file - problem in style capturing

Hi All,
I have a problem in importing the wordfile into Indesign CS3.
We have created all the Para & character styles in Indesign CS3.
The same style was created in Word also, we have a set of guys to do the pre-editing the input wordfile which we got from client.
We have applied all the character and para styles in Wordfile, which uses the same names in Indesign CS3.
When we import the wordfile into the Indesign CS3 all the para & character shows "+" marks and the style was not applied.
What will be the problem, why it is behaving like this, we have checked the "import options" while importing the word, but it fails.
Is anyone have these type of problem.
We need to know that how to solve this, since the reference part has lots of character style applied, we cannot clear the "+" manually in Indesign CS3 to solve.
Kavya

> So we like to open a topic reg. this to get solved.
This is a user-to-user forum. We're all just users like you.
From what I could tell from your post, Indesign is working as intended.
There is no solution because there really is no problem.
> Giving char style for bold and italics and special character will
> won't solve this, after importing into the template we need to clear
> the overrides that become manual one and we don't know what else has
> changed in the content, this will leads to problems.
Yes. Clearing overrides does clear all non-styled formatting, which is
why I suggested using Find/Replace to find the good formatting before
you clear the bad formatting. Specifically, you mentioned wanting to
keep bold and italic. The other character-level formatting from Word
that you will probably want to keep is:
--Strikethrough
--Underline
--Superscript
--Subscript
--Small Caps
--All Caps
--Bold Ital
--Bold
--Ital
There may be other character-level unstyled formatting you want to keep.
This depends on what the author put into the file.
If you're getting the same kind of files all the time, you can develop a
routine for these Find/Replaces. You can save your Find/Replaces, use
GREP, even string all the Find/Replaces together in a script. What you
can't do is expect Indesign to know which unstyled formatting is "good"
and which formatting is "bad". Only you know what you want to keep and
what you want to throw away.
Kenneth Benson
Pegasus Type, Inc.
www.pegtype.com

Import Word file into PP CS6?

Is there way to import a Word .docx file into Premiere Pro? It's a long document that I'd like to slowly scroll for about 10 minutes.

I did actually mean to write "Scroll" in previous post rather than "Crawl", my mistake.
Scroll is like movie credits. Create your Scroll title, then on timeline you can drag to any length desired, which affects the speed of the scroll. If you open the title again in the Titler, at upper left next to font selection there is an icon for "Scroll options" - this adds some additional parameters affecting the behavior of the scroll like Start Off Screen, or Ease In, etc.
Thanks
Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

Import Word files for graphics-subtitles

I am creating a number of titles slides in FCP with bullit lists and simple strategies that pop up through out the video.
We are doing both an english and spanish versions. Our editor would like to send me all titles from Microsoft Word to import
to FCP to avoid me retyping all of them. Is this a doable approach? If not Word would another program work better?
Thanks
Kevin

ah, my favorite topic: subtitles. I really should write a paper on it.
Turns out that we were the first ones to actually use DVD SP's subtitling. Had to change with it over the years.
You can build a spreadsheet file to do the whole thing. It's ok to use unicode, the mac will handle it all.
Nowadays I use Sublime to do the whole thing. Saves my life and it's relatively cheap. One of the great failings of the subtitling process in DVDSP is the inability to save the final file (in DVDSP) and move it to different projects. You end up making a portable file in the STL format and moving that one around. Sublime will use templates to which you can add additional languages. I also use text templates that let me take a single subtitle, or groups of them, and move them around on the screen (oh, say, to the upper left or right, or just high enough to miss the title bar). Can add color and all sorts of stuff.

Importing Word File - Page Defaults

I am importing from Word and the Default of 2 columns is always chosen. I wish to have only 1 column or blank to reflect the 1 for mapping of word page to Ibook page. I can't seem to find the ability to change this setting anywhere.

What do you mean 'chosen'...? Isn't that driven by the template? Which template are you uaing?
I think you'll find the WORD-to-iBA process less than perfect - in some cases, if you want xyz layout on the iBA side, it's easier to make changes to the abc layout on the WORD side first. Experimenting may help craft a specific recipe.

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