Indesign documents to Word documents

Hi
Im hoping someone can help me - I have made a masthead and a footer in indesign and now want to convert them to a word document. i have tried PDFing them and then cutting the image and pasting it as a footer but it goes all blurry and is unusable. Is there a way to use load an indesign a4 file in word?
thanks for the help
charlotte

You just want use this as an image without editable text in Word?
Best bet would be to export to PDF, then either rasterize that and save as TIFF from Photoshop, or try opening the PDF in Illustrator (actually, a .eps from exported from InDesign might work better in Illustrator), and save from there as .wmf, but don't expect miracles.
Peter

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Our office is producting a monthly newsletter of about 52 pages. So far, we have been doing it in Microsoft Word and this is working quite well. When the newsletter is finished, I email it to a proofreader who makes the necessary changes and returns it to me. All the changes are clearly visible and can be accepted or rejected with the help of the Reviewing Toolbar.
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