Word to Indesign

[kjp17]

Is there a program or script that can import Word to Indesign correctly that will also automatically applied paragraph styles in Indesign?

Also when we do a copy and paste, from Word to Indesign, why are all the styles(bold, underline, etc) are missing?

 

[pdan]

Place Word documents rather than copy and paste (which would paste using the current selected ID style).
During Place, Show Options
If you have styled the Word file (typically not), options are available to Use Imported Styles.
If character level attributes have been set (normal behavior for un-styled documents) Retain Formatting.

After placing, formatting should be retained. Ideally you would use scripts (or simple find/replace) to apply Para Styles and remove character level attributes.

Search within InDesignSecrets.com for detailed workflows and scripts or at Adobe InDesign forum
https://forums.adobe.com/community/indesign?view=discussions

 

[rich apollo]

For the last several years (I can't remember how many), Word has been XML "under the hood". If this is something you do routinely, you could set up paragraph and character styles that correspond to the XML tags that are present in the Word document. Then the text sort of formats itself.

You would need to be doing enough of this to make the upfront investment of time worth it.

 

[hokage]

Is there a program or script that can import Word to Indesign correctly that will also automatically applied paragraph styles in Indesign?

Also when we do a copy and paste, from Word to Indesign, why are all the styles(bold, underline, etc) are missing?

you can simply go to "Clipboard Handling" under Indesign "Preferences" and click "All Information under "Paste" section.
you just have a little work on paragraph breaking, (minus all the margins that used in the word to the paper size and make it the size of your placeholder text in Indesign)

regards

 

[Stephen Marsh]

It depends on the job. Back when I had to deal with low margin, high volume MS Office jobs on a regular basis, it was less costly and more productive to keep them native and then turn the documents into PDF and then prep them for CMYK output in the PDF.

Stephen Marsh

 

[pcmodem]

You could also save the Office document to PDF and then use the PDF2ID plugin.

 

[Al Ferrari]

There is a Regular and a Pro version of the PDF2ID plugins from Recosoft for $149 and $249, but there's absolutely no description of the difference between then at the Recosoft site. Does anyone know the difference?

Al

 

[andrugrasu]

see Watch the Online Video Course Using Word and InDesign Together