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1. Re: Can't Place a specific Word 2010 docx into InDesign CS4
Daniel Flavin Sep 15, 2011 3:50 PM (in response to reindeer4)reindeer4 wrote:
Can work around this for now, but would like to know how to get the place command working with decent size Word Docs( docx for word 2010 if that matters).
Thanks for any help.
It sounds as if you DO have the place command working, for all but one document.
You've worked around the problem, but it might be time for the Divide and Conquer approach if you really want to find out what's going on.
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2. Re: Can't Place a specific Word 2010 docx into InDesign CS4
fiddles5 Sep 16, 2011 10:39 AM (in response to reindeer4)It sounds like there's something in the Word doc that InDesign is finding offensive. Especially if other docx's are importing fine. Is there formatting you want to keep? If not, I would try saving as text-only to get rid of all formatting. Or if it's an offending stylesheet setting, or manual override, try clearing the formatting in the styles palette. Could be the docx is corrupted? Did you try "Save as..." and saving as an older version with .doc extension?
good luck!
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3. Re: Can't Place a specific Word 2010 docx into InDesign CS4
reindeer4 Sep 20, 2011 11:39 PM (in response to fiddles5)Thanks for the comments. Seems like it was a formatting issue though I need to study the help I got from another thread in more detail.
Do appreciate the replies and now moving on.
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4. Re: Can't Place a specific Word 2010 docx into InDesign CS4
P Spier Sep 21, 2011 4:28 AM (in response to reindeer4)It turned out that for at least one particular document the OP had used some blank paragraphs as spacers at the start of the text, and that the style assigned to the second paragraph used a combination of left and right paragraph indents that was more than the width of the document page, sending the entire document (except for the empty first paragraph) into overset. I can't say for sure, but I think the Word styles might have been mapped to ID styles because I found no trace of the indents in the Word file itself, only in the ID document, and I had no trouble placing that Word file in my own ID test document. I did have some trouble placing another .docx file supplied by the OP in CS4, but not in later versions, and conversion to .doc solved that problem.
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5. Re: Can't Place a specific Word 2010 docx into InDesign CS4
Mads Sep 28, 2011 12:43 AM (in response to P Spier)I'm having issues with .docx imported in InDesign CS5. If I import by placing, all the editing and deletions that the editor has made passes through, making the text jibberish. Removing formating in the import dialog box makes no difference. This must be a bug concerning word docx. I can circumvent the bug by copy/paste - but it slows my workflow
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6. Re: Can't Place a specific Word 2010 docx into InDesign CS4
P Spier Sep 28, 2011 1:08 AM (in response to Mads)Next time, please start a new thread. Your problem really is not related.
It sounds to me like nobody has accepted the tracked changes in the Word file. Before placing, accept all tracked changes (or have the editor accept or reject changes--it isn't really your job to make those decisions, and the file is not ready until changes are accepted or rejected) then do a Save AS. .docx usually is fine, but if you continue to have trouble, try .doc and .rtf.
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7. Re: Can't Place a specific Word 2010 docx into InDesign CS4
Mads Sep 28, 2011 2:04 AM (in response to P Spier)Sorry. Started new thread.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/907450 -
8. Re: Can't Place a specific Word 2010 docx into InDesign CS4
Electroscribe1109 Jun 7, 2013 12:24 AM (in response to fiddles5)At work, have Office 1007 and ID CS4. At home am just moving to Word 2013 for Windows from 2010. Also have Word 2011 for Mac. If I import .docx files saved in Word 2010 or later, they show up as blank in InDesign. If I downsave them as .doc files (Word 2003 or "compatibility mode," the text imports okay.
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9. Re: Can't Place a specific Word 2010 docx into InDesign CS4
fiddles5 Jun 7, 2013 5:09 AM (in response to Mads)I had been having the same problems with docx and CS5. It turned out it only happened with .docx that had Track Changes turned on, and changes that hadn't been accepted yet. Once I went in and accepted all changes and turned off Track Changes in the Word doc, I could import it with no difficulties.




