Comments on: InDesign & Word Styles – How well do they transfer with each other?

By: GShannon

GShannon — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:30:16 +0000

Thanks for the storytweaker link!
Will look for the correct discussion to ask about line breaks in hyperlinks when exporting from ID to PDF.

By: James Fritz

James Fritz — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:30:55 +0000

J.A. –

If you are having problems with your word tables, you can always copy and paste the table into excel and then import the excel file into InDesign.

By: J.A. Serafinchon

J.A. Serafinchon — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:30:53 +0000

I have problems when I export an InDesign file to Word when it come to tables. The tables go black and I have to fix them in Word. Anyone else experience this problem?

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:17:52 +0000

@gem: In general, this should work fine, as long as the paragraphs have some paragraph style applied to them already. If there’s no style applied to them, then InDesign can’t retain anything.

By: gem

gem — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:18:13 +0000

I receive Word files from numerous different contributors/freelancers which I then work on in InCopy.

I would like to be able to apply my various Adobe paragraph styles without wiping out the basic character formatting (bold, italic and sub/superscript) they have previously applied to specific words within the article using Word.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

By: Jennie

Jennie — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:53:27 +0000

I remember a tip from AM for getting rid of hyperlinks (and the annoying little boxes) in Word. I don’t remember the Windows shortcut but for Macs:
Highlight all text in the Word doc.
Hit command+6
Done

This has saved more hair pulling for me than you can imagine.

The totally cool thing is that even without the blue text, blue underline and black box, when I export my ID file to pdf the hyperlinks are recognized and I can click away on them in the pdf.

I wish Word would go away, but since it won’t, I wish they would tone down the hyperlink style.

Now…would you like to hear what I think of Microsoft “Punisher”?

By: Harbs

Harbs — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:46:30 +0000

Yes. It’s javascript.

Tip to tell script languages apart:

If it starts with “tell”, it’s AppleScript.

If it has a bunch of periods (i.e. app.documents…), and the text case is camelcase (i.e. starts with lowercase), it’s probably Javascript. If it has lines which start with “var” it’s also Javascript.

If there’s a declaration of the InDesign program in the beginning, it’s Visual Basic.

If I wrote it, you can bet on its being Javascript!

By: James Fritz

James Fritz — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:18:35 +0000

@Top Clone Scripts – Have you tried Word 2010’s new opentype features? I am curious to see how well they import into InDesign.

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:24:32 +0000

Is that a javascript harbs? I can’t tell.

By: Harbs

Harbs — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:50:51 +0000

@Eugene: You can remove the visible borders with this one-line script:

app.documents[0].hyperlinks.everyItem().visible = false;