Copy table data from Word to ID

Goran Lecic

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    • May 21, 2019 at 12:29 am #116614
      Goran Lecic
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      Hello everyone.
      My name is Goran and i’m new to this forum.

      I have difficulties to copy data from word table to my indesign formated tables.
      In Word table data is filled with break paragraph, it’s used enter to fill rows. For example, instead to have 5 rows, there is 1 row with 5 lines of text with break paragraphs. And only thing i can do is that copy single line text and paste it to formated InDesign table one by one. It takes a lot of time.

      Sorry for my bad english

      Regards

    • May 21, 2019 at 4:02 am #116615
      David Dilling
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      Hello Goran,

      What you could do is export the Word file as a PDF and place that. If you want actual converted tables, take the PDF and convert it with a multi-page PDF converter, like our PDF2DTP plugin for InDesign.

    • May 29, 2019 at 11:34 pm #116937
      Goran Lecic
      Member

      Thank you David.
      That halped me!

    • June 3, 2019 at 2:29 pm #116618
      Chris Thompson
      Member

      Hello Goran,

      Try:
      replace the paragraph breaks in Word with line breaks (search for ^p, replace with ^n)
      then copy – paste into InDesign.

      Or alternatively:
      replace the paragraph breaks in Word with temporary text (search for ^p, replace with ZZZZ)
      then copy – paste into InDesign
      then in InDesign, replace ZZZZ with paragraph breaks

      Good luck,
      Chris.

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