Overview
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Explore best practices for fast and accurate importing and formatting of Microsoft Word files into Adobe InDesign.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Work smarter with InDesign and Word
- What you should know
- Find the happy medium
- Compare Word styles to InDesign styles
- Platform differences: Word on Mac vs. Word on Windows
- Watch out for faux fonts and cloud fonts in Word
- Save your .docx file as the older format .doc
- Double-check paragraph and character defaults in InDesign
- Round-trip the Word file to RTF in Word or InDesign
- Remove internal corruption in Word
- Flow and thread text: The essentials
- Autoflow text
- Copy and paste from Word
- Word import options: Remove styles but keep overrides
- Word import options: Keep styles, overrides, and more
- Replace Word styles with InDesign styles
- Replace Word tags with InDesign styles
- Map Word styles to InDesign styles
- Create a Word template with InDesign styles
- Import and manage images embedded in Word
- Convert WordArt to usable images
- Convert local overrides to styles in Word
- Converting local overrides to styles in InDesign
- Remove extra returns, tabs, and spaces
- Manage automatic bulleted and numbered lists
- Control Word hyperlinks and their formatting
- PrepText script
- FindChangeByList script
- Multi-Find/Change script
- Unanchor scripts
- WordsFlow plugin
- DocsFlow plugin
- Accurate article formatting
- Collaborate with an InDesign and InCopy workflow
- Resources for Word and InDesign help
