Reply To: Problems Importing Word into InDesign …

Greg shared the files w/me in Dropbox, and Greg, I figured out the problem. I didn't fix the INDD file you shared with me, Greg, since I didn't open it in CS3, but it's an easy fix.

The problem is that Hyphenation was disabled for the Address_Information paragraph style, and the line that caused the overset contained a word too long to fit in the narrow column. The line was “Manager, PriceWaterhouseCoopers”.

If you add a discretionary hyphen — from the Type > Insert Special Character menu — between Waterhouse and Coopers, to both lines (there are two instances in a row here) then the rest of the text will flow through the document. Or make the columns wider (smaller gutter/margins), or change “Manager” to “Mgr.” or turn on hyphenation for those paragraphs or whatever.

Usually, InDesign will break a too-long word that's not in its dictionary with a best guess … but it can only do this if Hyphenation is enabled for that paragraph.

Thanks, that detective work is always fun!

AM