Reply To: New to InDesign — Book Creation MS Word-InDesign Workflow Question

There are several good responses to your post, some of which I have followed in the past, say around ID3. However, I got fed up with all the extra attention I needed to pay when making changes and I bought InCopy. I use InCopy as my word processor (when InDesign is the ultimate goal) so I don't have to worry about changes in either one.I even format in InCopy.

You can save the InCopy file as an rtf should you need to share it with a client.

ShortHills said:

Hello,

Please forgive the super-beginner question but here it goes. I'm writing a 200+ page manual in MS Word and I'd like to layout the book in InDesign (it will be single pages in a 3-ring binder). I've been watching some Lynda.com tutorials to learn more about the program but I have a specific MSWord to InDesign Workflow questions.

1. I'm doing all of my editing in Word as one large document. If I bring the text of chapter 1 into InDesign and then notice a typo:

a. is there a way to link InDesign and Word so that a correction I make to the text in InDesign replicates in my Word document?

b. or do I just continue using InDesign for further edting of this document (I really dont' want to do this option)

c. or do I make the correction in InDesign AND make the correction also in Word?

I'm just trying to figure out how the pro's do books, and I'm trying not to have to reinvent the wheel.

Thanks in advance for any advice!

W