5 Replies Latest reply: Feb 26, 2010 4:53 AM by [Jongware] RSS

    Import from Word problem

    denylau

      Hi,

       

      I've been trying to import a document from Word which includes a large number of footnotes.

      When I place the doc in the ID CS4, some of the footnote totally disappear and ID replace for the 2 footnotes below.. Can anyone help me?

      I really don't know why this happen only in CS4, I've switched to CS3 and there's no problem all footnotes correspond with the text...

        • 1. Re: Import from Word problem
          [Jongware] Community Member

          Importing Word in CS4 suddenly developed a lot of problems, whereas that same document places flawlessly into CS3 and older versions ...

          Do the tips from this last week's thread solve it?

          Word import paragraph style problem; anyone else?

          • 2. Re: Import from Word problem
            denylau Community Member

            Thanks for the tips.

             

            Actually, I tried to save it as RTF file, but the problem persist. Although, I save the word file as .DOCX extension and all the footnotes come along with no bug and in the correct order .

             

            Thanks anyway

            • 3. Re: Import from Word problem
              [Jongware] Community Member

              What ho? Saving as .DOCX does solve your problem? Now that's new to me!

              I'll add it to my bag-of-trixx for troublesome documents -- thanks right back for mentioning it!

              • 4. Re: Import from Word problem
                denylau Community Member

                welcomw

                 

                I just wonder why CS4 come with a lot of bugs!? Any news if Adobe will fix this mess?!

                • 5. Re: Import from Word problem
                  [Jongware] Community Member

                  Boy do I hope so.

                   

                  Just now I ran into a similar problem with footnotes: imported an RTF file; the first note had a pinky square instead of a reference number. Re-saved the same document as DOCX and, well, what do you know? The number in the text is now correct, but in the note itself it's displayed as "<?>". Okay -- I can live with that.

                   

                  Further inspection, however, showed that the first import silently omitted twelve pages of text! That'd surely make my client furious if I didn't notice it somehow. I don't think Adobe would pay for the resulting damage ...

                   

                  [Ed.] Insert Profanity Here. Out of 25 notes, number 19 disappears into a void -- in all versions that I can save from Word and import into ID. Its reference is, again, that blasted "I don't know what to put here so I'll give you a" pink square. Can we get anymore weird than that? Yes we can. Searching for the exact text of that footnote shows that it was imported, but mysteriously appeared at the bottom of footnote #1 -- as Overset text. Now that's really a first for me.

                   

                  By the way, this is just the first in a set of no less than 25 articles, and I don't think the rest will magically work fine.

                   

                  [Ed.#2] Copied the text out of that footnote #1 and pasted it into a separate frame. That 'extra' footnote is ... a footnote. Apparently InDesign put it as a footnote inside the existing note text.