Reply To: Formatting lost in Indesign

Hi All,

Thank you so much for jumping on the wagon and wanting to help!
You got me thinking outside my box, the box of my stuck ways of using Indesign and it worked!
I found a way, which was to first do all the formatting in Word and then use Placing with the ‘show import options’.
This worked but not all the time. However, once I saved the Word doc as .rtf and used this for placing, the problems resolved themselves.
Then I used the Cmd F to make all the extra little formatting changes in Indesign, moving the baseline up etc.
Very exciting.
Now I will try to use character style in future I think, one for the big font and one for the small, and perhaps the problems I was encountering with the Clipboard handling could be helped by using .rtf and perhaps paragraph styles too.
A lot to play with, I wonder how macros work!

I was using the Tibetan font called SambothaDege. Its non-unicode counterpart Sambotha Font (Dedris and Ededris) are still causing me a few challenges in Indesign.
It’s a steep learning curve for a beginner!

Thank you so much for wanting to help, for sharing your knowledge and time with me!
Kadrin