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1. Re: Roundtripping text between InCopy and Word?
BobLevine Nov 25, 2009 8:14 AM (in response to mattaca)Answered in the InDesign forum.
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2. Re: Roundtripping text between InCopy and Word?
mattaca Nov 25, 2009 9:40 AM (in response to BobLevine)Thanks for your reply, Bob, but my question remains unanswered. Anyone else have experience with this?
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3. Re: Roundtripping text between InCopy and Word?
AnneMarie Concepcion Nov 25, 2009 12:30 PM (in response to mattaca)Interesting ... I didn't know that Word punts and assigns the Normal style when there's an incoming style name conflict! That's not very nice. ;-)
It is likely possible to script your second choice (strip all formatting attributes but retain style names on export). You might try asking on either the ID or IC scripting forums, or contact a scripter directly for a quote (companies like in-tools.com, dtptools.com, rorohiko.com often do custom scripts or plugins for people ... just use their contact form).
In the meantime you could spend about what ... 30 minutes? ... in creating a "strip formatting" InDesign and/or InCopy template. The template doc would have all the same exact style names as the working doc, but no special formatting. Be sure to base them all on No Style. Or you might want to retain "bold" for headlines or something.
Then you could just export a story out of IC/ID to RTF and place that in the "cleansing" ID/IC template. When you do that, ID/IC styles trump incoming style definitions by default, so all special formatting is removed but style names are retained. Then re-export out of there to RTF again and send it on to your Word users.
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4. Re: Roundtripping text between InCopy and Word?
mattaca Dec 3, 2009 8:51 AM (in response to AnneMarie Concepcion)Thanks, AnneMarie! Not especially elegant, but that might be the best way.
Honored to have you comment on my post.
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5. Re: Roundtripping text between InCopy and Word?
mattaca Dec 3, 2009 8:52 AM (in response to AnneMarie Concepcion)Thanks, AnneMarie! Not especially elegant, but that might be the best way.
Honored to have you comment on my post.
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6. Re: Roundtripping text between InCopy and Word?
mattaca Dec 3, 2009 5:31 PM (in response to AnneMarie Concepcion)Just to catch you up, here is what I ended up doing. I created a Word document with styles that matched in name only—just the default formatting, and based them on No Style. I exported my InDesign document to an RTF file, then opened my blank Word document and chose Insert > File. By inserting the file (but not as a link), the style names were retained but the formatting matched the Word file. This allowed me to later pull the text back into InDesign and map the styles to have them automatically formatted. I found this to be the simplest method, as it didn't require exporting the file from InDesign twice to get it to look right.
Hope this helps someone else who has repurposing needs in the future.



