Quotes not coming in properly from Word + Keyboard shortcut prob (CS2)

[NIA2]

Hi everyone,

I have a Word file that I'm importing into Indesign. I've made sure the whole file has the normal style applied in Word. When I place this file into Indesign I map this style with one of the ID styles to get me started. There are a lot of single quotes in the file and I made sure when I imported it that all these quotes were typographers quotes by checking the option in the import options dialogue (they were already typographers quotes in Word but I wanted to make sure). When I bring the file into ID, most of the quotes come in fine but there are some scattered here and there that don't arrive correctly, ie. where the quote is supposed to be there's a red highlight - I think this signifies that the font is not there but when I select this highlighted character and look in the character pallette it's displaying the correct font. I've copied one of these highlights and pasted it into the find/change dialogue and a capital A inside a box appears in the find field. I don't know what this means - can someone tell me what might be happening?

Also just one further question if that 's okay: I'm working on an Apple Mac PowerBook. Since this doesn't have an extended keyboard I can't seem to be able to assign keyboard shortcuts to my styles. Is there a way to get around this problem on a laptop?

Appreciate any help offered.

 

[MarcusStringer]

First, the pink highlight means you have a missing font.

Try change the font in Word to something common like Times New Roman or Helvetica etc, then bring it into InDesign?

Once in see if the Quote mark show up.
If they do then Applt the correct style sheet

Let us know if that worked??

You can assign Shortcut Keys for almost everything, but they have to be a combo of something, Control+h etc etc.

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[NIA2]

Thanks for the tip. The typeface in Word was actually only Times but since changing it to Times New Roman it seems to have solved that problem which is great. The only problem left now is the keyboard shorcuts - I can't seem to assign any shortcuts to my styles within the styles pallette. I always thought that you had to have an extended keyboard to do this within the styles pallette unless there's some workaround?

 

[MarcusStringer]

Yes, I've had the same problem, with the times font as well, took me ages work work that one out...


It has to be a combo, a one key (like keypad 5) won't work
it has to be either command, control, option, plus either a letter or number which isn't assigned to anything else.



Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[NIA2]

Yeah I have been using the key combinations but still no luck. I have a Mac PowerBook G4 - maybe there's a difference between mac and PC.

 

[MarcusStringer]

I just tried..

You be only able to Assign shortcuts using the keypad.

I don't use them anyway, because the two key combo slows me down and is really painful in the fact that you can't, like Quark, assign them to a F key like F1, F2, F3 or any other one key etc. The fact that I have to take my hand off the mouse to hit the silly two key combo really, really erks me up the wall...

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[NIA2]

Yeah you're probably right. I might just have to switch computers if I want to use them.

Thanks for all your help.

 

[Ekwoman]

Styles shortcuts...you need to use one of the modifier keys (option, command, shift) and you have to have the NumLock key on. Then, you should have access to the "10-key" pad (which on my iBook means I press the grey fn key (to the left of ctrl)) and then choose one of the little grey numbers (on j,k,l, etc.). Hope that makes sense.

 

[MarcusStringer]

Wow, what a really long Shortcut...
turn on num lock, press either option, command or shift + Fn key + a Little Grey Number.

I wish with all my might, that Adobe would read this thread. (I know they won't) and change the next release so we can use the F1 F2 F3 keys for shortcuts, otherwise there is no point having them, it's quicker to use the mouse...

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[Ekwoman]

Yeah...it's really long and I don't use them...especially on my laptop which means using the fn key. But I did find that on my iBook at least, I don't actually need to use the NumLock key. When I use the "10-key" numerals, it works fine. So I could use Command-fn-J (which is the number 1 on my "10-key"). I actually use the Quick Apply menu in CS2...just involves accessing the styles by name! Good luck!