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

I have to import Word docs all day long, and for me the easiest way to keep everything “as is” in Word, is a macro I have in Word which creates char styles for italic, bold, superscript, etc. In Indesign I have the corrsponding char styles made (same name). When importing (place) or “copy-pasting” the Word file, all goes fine. All the char styles are transformed in real char styles and the rest of the text is ok too.

I then start applying the Indesign styles needed in the doc and I get rid of the “normal” style imported from Word.

A little script which helps a lot when the macro fails (often when footnotes are in tables in word) is the famous preptext script.