Josh.st » styles http://josh.st Web, English, 中国, and various geekosity Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:37:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Pasting from Word into InDesign http://josh.st/2009/07/06/pasting-from-word-into-indesign/ http://josh.st/2009/07/06/pasting-from-word-into-indesign/#comments Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:50:40 +0000 Josh http://josh.st/?p=1543 Bold/italic text is one of the few parts of Microsoft Word styling that designers actually lament the loss of when transferring content from Word into InDesign. Word styles are generally poorly used/abused, and accordingly the default is to throw them all out when importing text. Here’s how to avoid losing the baby with the bathwater.

In InDesign, press ⌘+K (Ctrl + K) to bring up the Preferences dialog, then click through to the last pane, “Clipboard Handling”. At the bottom of this pane, under “When Pasting Text and Tables from Other Applications”, set Paste to “All Information (Index Markers, Swatches, Styles, etc.)

Some Word styling will now import — watch carefully to make sure nothing too stupid finds its way into your pristine InDesign document!

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