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    • November 5, 2014 at 8:48 am #71446
      Steve Straus
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      I have an editor that I just can’t train. She insists on leaving me comments in Word files. Unfortunately, these do not import into InDesign thus I need to review every Word doc to see if she left me any comments. If I could train her, she would leave these in the text flow for me to see. . .

      Any plug-ins out there that import comments as InDesign notes?

    • November 6, 2014 at 3:18 am #71470
      Marie Doherty
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      Hi Steve

      I usually run a macro in Word which converts the comments to running text (and changes the colour of the converted text to green for ease of identification). The macro works fine in Word versions 2003, 2007 and 2010. See this link: https://windowssecrets.com/forums/showthread.php/89819-Convert-Comments-to-Text-(Word-2003)

    • November 6, 2014 at 6:29 am #71471
      Steve Straus
      Member

      Marie —

      Thanks for the suggestion of the macro. While it works perfectly, I was hoping for an automatic plug in solution for InDesign. Using this macro still means opening up every file in Word prior to pouring. I’m no Word wizard so maybe there is a “run macro on folder” option that I am not aware of. Thanks for the tip!

    • November 6, 2014 at 9:32 am #71478
      Marie Doherty
      Member

      Hi Steve

      See https://www.biblesupport.com/topic/1633-running-a-macro-on-all-files-in-a-folder/

    • November 6, 2014 at 9:40 am #71479
      Steve Straus
      Member

      Marie —

      I’ll give it a try. Thanks for the link!

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