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1. Re: Reading MS Word 2007 into InDesign
P Spier Feb 27, 2010 3:51 PM (in response to on5lb)Word files can be PLACED into InDesign
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2. Re: Reading MS Word 2007 into InDesign
on5lb Feb 28, 2010 2:37 AM (in response to P Spier)Thanks Peter, good news !
Best regards,
Jean
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3. Re: Reading MS Word 2007 into InDesign
[Jongware] Feb 28, 2010 3:15 AM (in response to on5lb)It depends on what you expect ... There is a vast difference between 'converting' and the placing Peter mentions.
If a program offers you an option to convert a file to its own format, you would expect all, or most, of the original formatting to stay intact and be editable in the new program. Sadly, that's not how it works. InDesign does not convert a Word file to one of its own; rather, when "placing" (which is commonly called "importing" in other programs) a Word file, InDesign only reads the text and its applied formatting. Anything more fancy than that -- borders, page layout, columns -- is simply discarded.
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4. Re: Reading MS Word 2007 into InDesign
on5lb Feb 28, 2010 3:30 AM (in response to [Jongware])Hi Jongware,
Thanks for reply.
I'm an independent engineer, active for industrial quality control systems.
In fact, i started a small manual (about 100 pages) for the use of a quality equipment, but don't like the Word application to realize it.
If i can, what you call "importing" the already text, can i adjust the formating with InDesign ?
Regards,
Jean
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5. Re: Reading MS Word 2007 into InDesign
P Spier Feb 28, 2010 4:50 AM (in response to on5lb)Absolutely.
When you import the word doc you have the option of either preserving the Word formating, discarding everything, or mapping Word styles to previously defined InDesign styles. Click the Show Import Options box in the Place dialog.
Normal professional workflow (in the real world) is the author uses Word to write the manuscript. Author generally knows little or nothing about typesettinga nd proper use of styles, so everything is styled in Normal (usually in Times or Times New Roman) with lots of local formatting.
Typesetter receives the manuscript and places it into ID. Because it is presumed that the formatting is what the autor intends, at least to start, Word styles and formatting are preserved during the import. Then it gets cleaned up.
Jongware, and some others, have nifty scripts (he'll probably post a link to his for you) that run a series of find/change operations that will look for things like words in italics or bold, then assign a style to them so the formatting can be preserved when other changes, such as changing the font to something a bit nicer for your book, remove blank paragraphs and extra spaces which should be handled by paragraph spacing, and a bunch of other little cleanup tasks, and in fairly short order you can take a completely unstructured Word document and turn it into a beautifully structured InDesign document where redefining a style fixes all of the text with that style through the whole thing.
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6. Re: Reading MS Word 2007 into InDesign
on5lb Feb 28, 2010 6:28 AM (in response to P Spier)Many thanks Peter, for your well detailed meessage.
I have still an old CS InDesign version, and intended to buy a new CS4 Suite.
Now, i'm sur i will
Have a nice day, here in Brussels, rain and havy wind...
Regards,
Jean


