Importing style issues

[bpilley]

I did a search and couldn't find the exact fix to my problem.

I usually work with scientific papers, which have a lot of special character formats such as bold, italics, super/subscripts, and small-caps. The trouble is, I lose all these special formats when I copy the text from the Word documents and paste them into unstyled text fields in InDesign.

Am I doing something wrong?

Why was this not an issue in Adobe Pagemaker 6.5, which is ancient in comparison to InDesign CS2?

I'm probably just missing something... right?

Thanks in advance!

 

[jmgalvin]

Try using Place instead of copy/paste. When you get the place window, check "show import options" and pick what you need in the next window. I've never lost formatting on a Word doc when doing "place".

I'm still on CS, not CS2, but I believe taht CS2 has more options for importing styles from Word.



Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[nitekatt2006]

Thanks, that exactly solved my MS Word import problem too. katt