Reply To: MS Word to InDesign best practices for novels

Not at all, Dwayne :)

I can picture most of what you are suggesting. And my first novel layout looks great, so I have my InDesign styles down to where I want them.

Okay, now I remember why I was having a problem placing my file. When I place my file into InDesign, my font sizes have shrunk from 11 pt down to 3 pt, even though the paragraph style (and without a + after it) is reading 11 pt. Same goes for my headings, all reduced. Also, the placed text goes over the top of the text box.

I’ve got something out of whack. So, what is overriding that font size? It is also shrinking to a size I never use? Strange.
Hmm, with an empty text box (with no Word doc in the file) I just clicked on my InDesign style, and the cursor dropped to 3 pt, even though the style is set to 9.5. I must have something clicked on by mistake…