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1. Re: Problems Placing Text from Word
Steve Werner Apr 23, 2011 10:48 PM (in response to rigoliarts)If you're doing what you're saying you're doing...namely placing that much text on your MASTER PAGES, that's the problem. You should place your Word text onto a DOCUMENT PAGE. You can hold down the Shift key to autoflow the remainder of the text, automatically creating new pages using the same master page.
Master pages are the pages at the top of the Pages panel. Document pages are those below the double line.
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2. Re: Problems Placing Text from Word
rigoliarts Apr 23, 2011 11:28 PM (in response to Steve Werner)No, sorry for the confusion. I meant that I had set up a master page first, but I AM trying to place the text onto a document page and I have used the shift key to auto flow. Could it be something with the fonts or the word document?
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3. Re: Problems Placing Text from Word
Nini Tjäder Apr 24, 2011 1:31 AM (in response to rigoliarts)Absolutely can be something in the Word file itself. Check in the original file, in MS Word, the location from where it stops importing. Check it with hidden characters shown. Check if there is a some odd character or rule there or if the following paragraph has a rule saying to keep it on same page or braking to new section or something like that. There is plenty of stuff in Word files that can stop an import...
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4. Re: Problems Placing Text from Word
P Spier Apr 24, 2011 4:52 AM (in response to rigoliarts)I often see Word files full of non-breaking spaces, too. It only takes turning off hyphenation one too many non-breaking spaces in a line to send the rest of the doc into overset. This is not unusual AT ALL when you recompose in ID, especially if the column width is different. A large inline image would do that, too.
In addition to looking at the file in Word, you could put the cursor at the last point you see text in ID and open the story editor to see what's beyond. If it isn't obvious (turn on non-printing characters so you can see non-breaking spaces), select the first two overset paragraphs and check the Keep options (might be set to keep all lines together and/or keep with next that hass keep all lines together and have too many lines to fit a page) or whether No Break is applied in the first overset line. Check hyphenation, as well.
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5. Re: Problems Placing Text from Word
BobLevine Apr 24, 2011 6:12 AM (in response to rigoliarts)What version of InDesign?
Bob
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6. Re: Problems Placing Text from Word
rigoliarts Apr 24, 2011 10:05 AM (in response to BobLevine)CS5
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7. Re: Problems Placing Text from Word
rigoliarts Apr 24, 2011 11:14 AM (in response to P Spier)It was the hyphenation! Once I checked the hyphenation box, the rest of the text came in. Thank you all for your help.
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8. Re: Problems Placing Text from Word
P Spier Apr 24, 2011 12:16 PM (in response to rigoliarts)Well, if hyphenation solved the problem, it most likely means that there's a stretch of text with non-breaking spaces, or else one really long word (like a URL), and you should spend the time to figure out what the real problem was. Non-breaking spaces should really only be used to separate words that need to stay together ( I typically use them in proper names), and if you repalce the ones you don't need with ordinary spaces you may be able to turn off hyphenation again if you want to. If it's a long URL, a hyphen is ambiguous, and it's often better to add discretionary line breaks (under special characters) at appropriate break points.
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9. Re: Problems Placing Text from Word
SimonJester753 Mar 26, 2013 5:52 PM (in response to P Spier)OK, I'm having this problem and I have no idea what you people are talking about.
Where exactly is this hypenation setting? In InDesign or Word? How do I access it and exactly what should it be set to?
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10. Re: Problems Placing Text from Word
Nini Tjäder Mar 27, 2013 1:20 AM (in response to SimonJester753)If you are having the problem when placing the Word-document (I haven't read the entire thread, sorry) then the hyphenation rules are set in Ms Word. You can however change that in InDesign itself. U turn on Language (desired language in the Character palette to get the correct rules. U then turn on Hyphenate in the Paragraph palette. If you want further control use the drop down menu in the Paragraph palette to set rules for how the hyohenation should behave. Other hyphenation problems can be found in the Styles used. Those can come from either Word or InDesign. What the settings should be depends a lot on font and font size used and which kind of rules you want to be used (like how many charcter should there be before it hyohenates, where in a particular word should the word be hyphenated etc.).




