Text and Style Sheets

[stephmaya]

I am looking at a sample booklet done by a designer and it seems that he has set up two text boxes in his master pages, one on each page and then imported the text as needed on each page after that rather than have the text linked and flow in at once. My question is, what is the proper most professional time efficient way to do this? I have text, some bolded but not necessarily formatted in word and I need to import the text in to Quark to format a booklet. Is the best way to do it like the designer did, a bit at a time or should I get all text at once and then start formatting? Also is it easier just to reformat the bolded text in Quark or should I some how import the styles already used in Word?

Thank you for any suggestions in advance.

 

[maxformed]

If there is a lot of formatting to be done, I would suggest using Xpress tags in the Word document, then saving that as text only and importing.

You can set up the facing pages and adjust the size of the automatic text box on each right and left page as needed. The nice thing about Quark with master pages is that you can change them in the document easily. So if a page needs to run short, just shorten the text box on that page, etc.

If it is a small booklet and you don't have the patience to tag the Word document, just set up non-flowing boxes and copy/paste the text into Quark. You will retain the character-level formatting that way (such as italics, bolds) and apply styles as needed.

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[stephmaya]

Thanks for the tips!

The word document is 6000 words and is spilt up by having lines throughout the document indicating the sections. I assume this is a large enough document to try the Xpress tags in the Word document. Now just to learn how, I beleive there is another thread with this information that I can look at.

Thanks for your help.