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1. Re: InDesign CS6 doesn't import font styles from Word document
Richard Groff Jul 2, 2013 10:20 AM (in response to soom1976)What do you mean by "font styles"? Typefaces? Paragraph styles? Italics, bold, etc.? Does this particular Word document open in CS3 properly?
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2. Re: InDesign CS6 doesn't import font styles from Word document
soom1976 Jul 2, 2013 4:31 PM (in response to Richard Groff)By Font Styles I mainly mean Italic, Bold and font colors - I'm not sure about other things cause I don't have them.
As I said before - in CS3 everything opens perfeclty
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3. Re: InDesign CS6 doesn't import font styles from Word document
Joel Cherney Jul 2, 2013 4:35 PM (in response to soom1976)When you select your Word file from the Place Document dialog, make sure that the "Show Import Options" button at the bottom is checked before you click Open. When the Import Options screen comes up, make sure that "Preserve Styles and Formatting from Text and Tables" is selected. The behaviors you report make it sound like "Remove Styles and Formatting from Text and Tables" is selected instead.
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4. Re: InDesign CS6 doesn't import font styles from Word document
soom1976 Jul 3, 2013 12:39 AM (in response to Joel Cherney)Joel, please read carefully the first post - I do open Import Options dialog and I tried all the options. I know how to import a document, and as I said - it works in CS3
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5. Re: InDesign CS6 doesn't import font styles from Word document
Laubender Jul 3, 2013 12:55 AM (in response to soom1976)@soom1976 – yes, sometimes I also have to go back to InDesign CS3 or CS4 to get a Word import right… If anything fails, mostly CS3 will do the trick. However, docx format is out of scope for CS3.
Fortunately I have installed CS3, CS4, CS5 and CS5.5 on one machine…
Ask Jongware around for that…
Uwe
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6. Re: InDesign CS6 doesn't import font styles from Word document
[Jongware] Jul 3, 2013 1:52 AM (in response to Laubender)Laubender wrote:
@soom1976 – yes, sometimes I also have to go back to InDesign CS3 or CS4 to get a Word import right… If anything fails, mostly CS3 will do the trick. However, docx format is out of scope for CS3.
Fortunately I have installed CS3, CS4, CS5 and CS5.5 on one machine…
Ask Jongware around for that…
Oh, no need to ask -- I agree with Uwe. From CS3 on, importing Word docs have gone from not so bad to ... bad. And after that it got worse.
CS6 will not be updated anymore, but maybe it got less worse better with CC. And if not, I guess one of the "advantages" of Continuous-Updating is that you can hope Adobe finally fixed it on every single update.
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7. Re: InDesign CS6 doesn't import font styles from Word document
soom1976 Jul 3, 2013 12:30 PM (in response to [Jongware])No hope for Adobe :/
Do you guys know if there is any script that might do the job?
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8. Re: InDesign CS6 doesn't import font styles from Word document
Richard Groff Jul 3, 2013 12:35 PM (in response to soom1976)I just think this is very strange. I have every version of InDesign from 1 to CS6 and have worked on all versions at my job as well, and I've never seen this happen. And I've pumped literally thousands of Word files into ID. Is it indeed all Word files that are doing this or just this one? I'm inclined to think it's something besides CS6. Have you tried saving the Word file as RTF or something else that ID can import?
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9. Re: InDesign CS6 doesn't import font styles from Word document
Laubender Jul 3, 2013 12:48 PM (in response to Richard Groff)@Richard – I have seen that a lot recently.
The problem docx files were saved out of PDFs with Acrobat Pro X.The only remedy was to open them anew in Microsoft Word and save them as a new files in doc-format. Even TextEdit (I'm on a Mac) nore Open Office could save them in a flavour of doc-files InDesign could import them with the right styles.
Uwe
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10. Re: InDesign CS6 doesn't import font styles from Word document
Richard Groff Jul 3, 2013 12:58 PM (in response to Laubender)We paginate books where I work and we've gotten around all the Word quirks by running a macro in Word that replaces everything with Xtag codes, then we save as plain text and import the file into Word with the Xtags plug-in. I've taken the same route when I work at home as a freelancer. The Xtags plug-in is cost-prohibitive for me personally, so I've done my own version of the Word macro we use at work that changes everything to ID Tagged Text. Everything comes in perfectly. Word files have a lot of hidden junk in them and this approach guarantees that you get rid of it all!
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11. Re: InDesign CS6 doesn't import font styles from Word document
soom1976 Jan 12, 2014 4:00 PM (in response to Richard Groff)Richard - I know it's a bit old thread, but could you please share your macro and this plug-in you are talking about?
Thanks.
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12. Re: InDesign CS6 doesn't import font styles from Word document
Richard Groff Jan 14, 2014 4:01 AM (in response to soom1976)Can't share the plug-in; you can get it from Em Software, though. Can't really share the macro, either, since it's owned by the company I work for. As for the macro, among other things, it looks for italic, bold, bold italic, small caps, superior, etc., and replaces them with beginning and ending codes for the same thing using Xtags. (Italic becomes <I>italic<$>, bold is <B>bold<$>, etc.) The file is then saved in plain text format, so any Word weirdness is totally eliminated. You then import the file into ID using the Xtags plug-in. Of course, Xtags does WAY more than that. See their website for full details and a limited trial version.
You can do something similar without having to pay the hefty price of Xtags by making a Word macro that searches for attributes and changes them to ID's own Tagged Text coding. But it's not nearly as easy and elegant as Xtags.
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13. Re: InDesign CS6 doesn't import font styles from Word document
Kerberviner Apr 10, 2014 12:38 AM (in response to soom1976)It seems that CS6 is much happier with .docx than with .doc (at least on Macs, dunno about PC). What I do is, open the .doc file in TextEdit, then save as Word 2007 .docx file, and the styles placed fine. Doesn't cost a penny



