Reply To: New to InDesign — Book Creation MS Word-InDesign Workflow Question

Thank you both for your insight.

1. When you talk about keeping things in ID “In our shop our workflow uses Word for copyedit, then we import to ID for layout, and further proofreading edits are done in ID” do you ever go back to the Word document?

Mine is a 200+ page Word document, so my concern is that if I don't keep my word document up to date, then if later on I add another chapter to the word document, then this word document won't be the most up to date (e.g. if I went from Word to ID, then edited in ID, then needed to add another chapter in Word).

How do you work around this problem?

2. Also, all I have in Word are very basic styles. Is there a good way to start fresh with my stlyes in ID? I don't care if ID doesn't bring any of my word styles over? (or should I)? I can easily create and use Word styles, but it really makes no difference.

Thanks!