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• • February 5, 2013 at 3:55 am #64064
    Hopsa Rijnen

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    Hi fellow indesigners,

    i just can't get it right; copying and pasting text from Excel, single or multiple cells (or from time to time even Word, so probably powerpoint aswell) into inDesign (CS5 for that matter).

    It just pastes in as an embedded picture, when pasted with nothing selected, when pasting with a text frame active, when pasting into an indesign table.

    Only when i type in a few textcharacters select those and then paste it, goes well.

    Why is that? Hope someone has the answer to it. Thanks in advance

  • February 5, 2013 at 8:09 am #64067
    Tim Hughes

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    Import the excel document into ID it will be tables.

  • February 5, 2013 at 9:06 am #64068
    Hopsa Rijnen

    Member

    Ah yes, that would simplyfy, but yet be another workaround,

    plus giving me more handling to do (change table into text) (deleting styles)

    so i remain to my question; why is it occuring?

  • February 16, 2013 at 12:56 pm #64184
    Anonymous

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    Depends on which version of Word/Excel you are using. For best results, use Office 2003 as later versions create more problems.

  • February 16, 2013 at 1:11 pm #64186
    Hopsa Rijnen

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    It's the 2011 for mac, we had the 2004 version, but that no longer worked under mountain Lion, (Grrrrrrr, Apple nousiance)

  • February 16, 2013 at 1:34 pm #64187
    Anonymous

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    I don't know whether its worth the time. But you can try opening the file on PC (Word/Excel) and then trying to open it in ID. Even Adobe's ID page mentions of incompatibilities.

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