Reply To: Adobe InDesign Tagged Text files

I meant the “Show Options” button in the “Place” dialog. The “All files” is in the file type filter list, but you won't need it if the file extension is just “.txt” as this already qualifies as an “Importable file”. (I think I added “any files” because I also tried with non-standard file extensions.)

My main point was, if InDesign properly recognizes the file you selected as Tagged Text, it shows this dialog:

rather than the Text Import Options where all you can do is mess with character sets and hard returns. If you get the plain text import options, you can hit “Cancel” right away, instead of waiting for ID to load a useless file.