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Hi,
looking for some tips or trick to this. I am typesetting and i am copying and pasting references. I have a style going that auto numbers them, however, i get the below when i paste from word. how can i speed up the removal of the number and the tab space?
Thanks
Jonathan
Are the numbers manually entered in Word? Or is it a numbered list. Click in the list in Word and hit Enter/Return and start typing, see if the paragraph gets the next number.
I'm guessing it's a numbered list in Word (most Word users know how to click the Number or Bullet button at the top to make an auto-numbered or bulleted list) and when you're pasting it in, you're losing the autonumbering, they're being converted to manual numbers followed by a tab.
To confirm and fix this: go to InDesign P
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grep could be a solution
find:
^\d+\.\t
format > paragraph style that you use for this
change:
leave blank
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Honestly, I'd clean it up in Word. Who ever did this did a lousy job of using automated features.
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Are the numbers manually entered in Word? Or is it a numbered list. Click in the list in Word and hit Enter/Return and start typing, see if the paragraph gets the next number.
I'm guessing it's a numbered list in Word (most Word users know how to click the Number or Bullet button at the top to make an auto-numbered or bulleted list) and when you're pasting it in, you're losing the autonumbering, they're being converted to manual numbers followed by a tab.
To confirm and fix this: go to InDesign Preferences, and in the Clipboard Handling section at the bottom, see if you have "Text Only" selected under the "When Pasting Text and Tables." If so, that's what is causing the double-hit of numbers. It's converting Word's auto-numbered to text numbers.
Solution is to either:
If the Word user actually did enter manual numbers, then the best solution is to use the GREP cleanup after pasting into ID, as described above.
AM
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I missed that these were being PASTED. If you place the Word files, the auto numbering comes in correctly.
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thank you for your help. it was a pleasure meeting you at Creative Pro.
always learning something new.
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now i notice that when i copy and paste from tables in word to indesign it bring in the structure of the table inside the table i already have. switching back to text resolved that issue.
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Glad I could help! (And thanks for coming to CreativePro Week!)
That little Clipboard Handling preference setting can come in handy.