Reply To: InDesign CS5: italics missing from imported Word document

I've experienced Mathieu's problem many times, as have my colleagues. In fact, for some projects we've taken to having the copy-editors colour italic text a different colour so we can be sure what's meant to be italic and what isn't. The typesetter then does a global find and replace to change that colour to italic. Like Mathieu, we've never been able to get entirely to the bottom of what properties of the formatting cause it to be lost – at times it seems completely random.