Introduction
Welcome
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A quick note from the instructor
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Using the exercise files
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1. InDesign and Word Formatting Essentials
Discovering how text styles work in Word
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Understanding the basics of InDesign text styles (for Word users)
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Identifying which formatting attributes transfer and which don't
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2. Best Practices for Getting Word Text into InDesign
Cleaning up text formatting in Word
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Checking paragraph and character defaults in InDesign
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Controlling text formatting when cutting and pasting
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An overview of placing (importing) Word files into InDesign
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Stripping out Word styles when importing text
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Preserving Word styles when importing text
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Mapping Word styles to InDesign styles
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Creating a Word template with InDesign styles
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Linking to Word files for automatic updating
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3. Importing Other Word Elements into InDesign
Importing Word tables of contents (TOCs)
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Converting a Word index into an InDesign one
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Working with footnotes
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Converting static endnotes into dynamic endnotes
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Managing inline images and photos
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Working with page breaks
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Working with tracked changes
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4. Fixing Common Problems with Imported Word Text
Removing extra returns, tabs, spaces, and other deadwood
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Converting tagged Word docs to styled InDesign text with Find Change
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Converting tagged Word docs to styled InDesign text with a script
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Replacing Word styles with InDesign ones after importing
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Diagnosing and fixing bizarrely formatted text
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Deleting Word hyperlinks and or their formatting
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Fixing missing glyphs (empty squares pink highlighting)
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Converting local formatting to character styles with Find/Change
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Converting local formatting to character styles with a script
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Merging text from inline text frames in Word into the main text flow
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Extracting embedded art from a Word file
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5. Troubleshooting and Repairing Word Files
Maggying the Word file to remove internal corruption
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Round-tripping to InDesign RTF to clean up unnecessary information
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Using the Divide and Conquer method in either program
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Rescuing the text from a damaged Word file
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6. Exploring Alternatives to Word-Only Editorial Design Workflows
Linking to Word files with the WordsFlow plugin
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Syncing Google Docs with InDesign via the DocsFlow plugin
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Converting Word docs to InCopy for fast and accurate formatting
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Collaborating with an InDesign-InCopy workflow
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Conclusion
Resources for Word and InDesign help
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Ex_Files_Using_Word_InD.zip
(367.5 MB)