Indesign CS2 and preserving italic and bold

[Vilz]

Dear all,

I know this is an old issue but still...
When I place text from Word (2007) to Indesign CS2 (XP) italic and bold disappears.

I read through few threats but nothing seems to work.

Please do help.

Best regards!

 

[MVerschuren]

Hi Vilz,

do you mean ..
A. The paragraph style has bold and intalic and after
MS-word import it is gone ?
(have you tried "past without formating"?)

or

B. MS-word text has bold and italic but it doesn't came
into indesign after import ?


Marcel

 

[Vilz]

Thanks for reply Marcel!

The problem is that MS Word file has italic and bold but when I place it to InDesign all the italics and bolds are gone.

When I place the text I don't want to have all the Words Styles and formatting but I do need Italic and bold.
I ticked the box: Preserve Local Overrides, but it doesn't seem to do so...

For CS3 there is a script "PreserveLocalFormatting" but I need something similar for CS2

Thaks.

 

[MVerschuren]

Hi Vilz,

i dont't have acces to id2 right now, but you can try this...

1. first make a charaterstyle bold and italic.
2. import the text.
3. find/change
a. leave "change what" and "change to" blank
b. find format settings: format
Basic charater format -> fill "bold" at font style
leave other fields blank
c. change format setting: format
set charater syle to "bold"
d. execute find/change
4. now all bold text have a charaterstyle.
5. select all the text en goto the flt-out arrow,
at the paragrah panel. Select clear overwrite.
6. the "+" should be gone at the paragraph styles AND
the text that was bold should be unchanged.
No need for a script.

Hope it is clear what i am doing...

Marcel

 

[Vilz]

Thank you Marcel!
Works perfect.

Regards,
Vilz