Introduction
Work smarter with InDesign and Word
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What you should know
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1. Text Formatting Essentials
Find the happy medium
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Compare Word styles to InDesign styles
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Platform differences: Word on Mac vs. Word on Windows
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Watch out for faux fonts and cloud fonts in Word
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2. Looking for a Quick Fix? Try These First
Save your .docx file as the older format .doc
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Double-check paragraph and character defaults in InDesign
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Round-trip the Word file to RTF in Word or InDesign
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Remove internal corruption in Word
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3. Import Text with and without Styles
Flow and thread text: The essentials
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Autoflow text
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Copy and paste from Word
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Word import options: Remove styles but keep overrides
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Word import options: Keep styles, overrides, and more
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Replace Word styles with InDesign styles
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Replace Word tags with InDesign styles
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Map Word styles to InDesign styles
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Create a Word template with InDesign styles
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4. Import Artwork along with the Text
Import and manage images embedded in Word
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Convert WordArt to usable images
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5. Common Clean-Ups
Convert local overrides to styles in Word
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Converting local overrides to styles in InDesign
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Remove extra returns, tabs, and spaces
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Manage automatic bulleted and numbered lists
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Control Word hyperlinks and their formatting
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6. Get These Scripts
PrepText script
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FindChangeByList script
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Multi-Find/Change script
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Unanchor scripts
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7. Word Adjacent Workflows
WordsFlow plugin
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DocsFlow plugin
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Accurate article formatting
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Collaborate with an InDesign and InCopy workflow
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Conclusion
Resources for Word and InDesign help
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Ex_Files_Smarter_Workflows_with_InDesign_and_Word.zip
(413.0 MB)