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Importing Word files into InDesign

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    • June 27, 2022 at 12:50 pm #14366951
      Richard Powell
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      Hi David. My apologies, you are probably so tired of this line of enquiries. I have a .docx file which I need to import into InDesign, however, when I do it loses all the footnotes (hundreds of them). The only fix seems to be saving the .docx file as a .doc or .rtf file. This works perfectly, all the footnotes are there, however saving to .doc or .rtf loses the text formatting ie bold and italic. Any ideas how to get around that one??

      Thank you

      Richard

    • June 27, 2022 at 1:23 pm #14366952
      Petar Petrenko
      Participant

      I always convert Word files into RTF and never lost any character formating.
      Try opening Word file with LibreOffice and then convert it into RTF.

    • June 27, 2022 at 2:19 pm #14366957
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      When a Word import goes wrong, my first troubleshooting step is to do a Save As from Word, to clear out any gunk that might have built up. If it still doesn’t work, then I switch from .doc to .docx (or vice versa). I rarely use RTF, but that should work okay.

    • June 28, 2022 at 11:35 am #14367025
      Richard Powell
      Participant

      Thank you guys, appreciate the feedback.

    • June 28, 2022 at 12:06 pm #14367035
      Anne-Marie Concepcion
      Member

      Importing the footnotes in your .docx should work just fine. Strange.

      You might try Maggying the Word doc and saving as a new file, see if that solves any problems. I have a chapter in my Smarter Workflows with Word and InDesign course (just published on LinkedIn) that’s all about quick fix techniques, and RTF roundtrip and Maggying are a couple of them.

      To Maggy a file, open it in Word, Select all, Shift>Left Arrow to deselect the final return, Copy, create a new Word file, Paste, Save with a different name. That removes some internal corruption. Worth a shot.

      AM
      PS Here’s the Maggying video: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/smarter-workflows-with-indesign-and-word/remove-internal-corruption-in-word

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