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Getting Word Charts into InDesign

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    • May 10, 2021 at 10:09 am #14339194
      John Penney
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      I am using InDesign to typeset a Word document that contains a number of charts that appear to have been created in Word but do not import when the text file is placed. On my desktop I changed the file extension from .docx to .zip and expanded the file using UnArchiver. I was expecting to find the charts to be something I could open in Illustrator and then import into InDesign. However, all I found were xml files. Is there any way of getting the charts from Word to InDesign?

      I appreciate any suggestions you may have.

      Thank you in advance.

    • May 10, 2021 at 10:59 am #14339207
      David Blatner
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      Hm… Perhaps they were drawn using Word’s drawing tools? Maybe select them, copy and paste them into another Word document, and then save the document as a PDF?

    • May 10, 2021 at 11:07 am #14339208
      Anne-Marie Concepcion
      Member

      what David said ;-) Word-authored artwork doesn’t convert. (Actual tables do, though.) You need to export to PDF then open in Illustrator to grab that art and prep it for commercial printing.

    • May 10, 2021 at 11:07 am #14339209
      Anne-Marie Concepcion
      Member

      what David said ;-) Word-authored artwork doesn’t convert. (Actual tables do, though.) You need to export to PDF then open in Illustrator to grab that art and prep it for commercial printing.

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