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• • May 15, 2014 at 7:12 am #68445
    Anonymous

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    I’ve copied and pasted a bunch of text from Word and placed it into my InDesign layout. The authors endnotes now appear as regular numerals (not superscript). Is there a way to use grep in InDesign to find all these numerals and make them superscript?

    I guess there would be a better way to do this? Importing text and applying pre-made character styles to the endnotes in the import options? This is one of those tasks which I should probably be better at, but still haven’t figured it out.

    Thanks in advance for any tips!

  • May 15, 2014 at 9:53 am #68451
    David Blatner

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    You should almost never copy and paste a large amount of text from Word into InDesign — especially if you want to retain formatting or anything like this. Use File > Place instead. InDesign doesn’t do endnotes by itself, but if you search this site, you’ll find various solutions including scripts to do it.

  • May 22, 2014 at 7:19 am #68604
    Anonymous

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    Thanks for the reply David. I’ve been getting more familiar with placing text the correct way, and mapping character styles.

    I’m curious about other people’s workflow when placing text. Do you create a separate INDD. document just for text? Or do you place your text into text frames in the layout document and maybe position in the pasteboard? Currently I’m working on a magazine/journal layout, and the articles have been provided in separate Word docs, so I don’t have a TON of text to import at once, but was wondering what people do with 50+ page Word docs.

  • May 22, 2014 at 1:12 pm #68611
    Anne-Marie Concepcion

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    If you have a 50-page Word doc that has to go into your journal, then usually you place the Word file and Shift-click it in the layout to autoflow it. The reason you always place instead of copy/paste is because you have so much more control via the Word Import Options dialog box. Saves a ton of time. If you just need to grab a paragraph or two, then sure just copy/paste.

    I cover this, plus dealing with footnotes and endnotes and other fun Word stuff ;-D in my lynda.com title, Using Word and InDesign Together.
    https://www.lynda.com/InDesign-tutorials/Using-Word-InDesign-Together/122930-2.html

    Some people create text frames on the master page and then in the document page, you’d shift-click it in that frame. Other people let InDesign make the frames on the fly based on the margin and column guides. (Just shift-click on the doc page).

    If the Word article has captions, a headline, a sidebar, etc., then the typical workflow is to place the whole thing, then you cut and paste from the placed story into those separate/new text frames.

    AM

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