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• • August 19, 2012 at 10:41 am #62929
    Anonymous

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    I have been working on formatting a translation of my book in Indesign CS5 for three weeks. Turns out that the translator found some issues he needed to correct (at my request). I was seeing things like three paragraphs in a particular section where I had six, or missing words in the Glossary, etc.

    But, he sent me the entire book doc with the corrections i.e. I have no idea where the corrections are!! I was thinking he would just send me where the corrections are needed, and I'd add them. Now, I'm faced with going through the entire book doc, word by word by word, to see if I can find the corrections in a language I don't know. Yes, I've asked him to go through it and make the changes in red, but not sure yet he will.

    My question: can I flow this new corrected Word doc into the Indesign doc (same doc but without the corrections) and have the formatting I added all over the place stay the same?? I seriously doubt it but wanted to ask. Also, his corrected Doc has 340 pages (close to what the other doc had that I started on three weeks ago), and the formatted version brought the pages out to 385ish!

  • August 20, 2012 at 6:51 am #62934
    Amy Gilbert

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    You can compare the new file from your translator to the original one you placed in InDesign if you still have it. You must do this in Word, not InDesign. You will end up with one document with changes tracked (marked in a color) If you tell me which version of Word you are using, I'll tell you how to do it.

  • August 20, 2012 at 4:13 pm #62942
    Anonymous

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    amygil said:

    You can compare the new file from your translator to the original one you placed in InDesign if you still have it. You must do this in Word, not InDesign. You will end up with one document with changes tracked (marked in a color) If you tell me which version of Word you are using, I'll tell you how to do it.

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    Hi. He sent a docx. Thanks for your help. I'm an Indesign novice trying to learn all this. Have come a LONG way but still hit huge learning curves like this. lol.

  • August 20, 2012 at 5:17 pm #62943
    Amy Gilbert

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    Well, this is a Microsoft Word tip, not InDesign. There is no way to bring in the unformatted text into InDesign and hope for ID to magically format it for you. All I can tell you is how to have Word highlight the changes so you can manually make the same changes to your ID file.

    Docx is not really what I wanted to know. I wanted to know what version of Microsoft Word you are using (e.g. Windows 2007, Mac 2011, etc.). But I will tell you how to do it on the Mac Word 2011 and if that's not what you have, I'm sorry.

    Open both the changed document and the original document in Word. From the Tools menu choose Track Changes –> Compare Documents. On the left, click the blank menu bar and choose the original document. On the right, click the blank menu bar choose the changed document. Click OK. From the row of tabs above your document, choose “Review”. There are previous/next buttons on that bar that will let you navigate through the document changes. Hope this helps. If you are using Word for Windows, check out this web page.

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