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• • February 4, 2021 at 7:38 am #14335797
    Luca Baffa

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    Hi Everyone,

    In the last couple of months I have been experiencing some weird issues with italic text coming from imported Word document.

    The style (applied with the “I” button in Word) mostly makes it through into InDesign (the import dialogue set to allow local overrides from the imported documents). But there are some instances where it doesn’t, and I can’t figure out why. Here is an example of this “spotty” issue.

    

    The foreground word document shows the italics correctly applied, and the background ID document where it doesn’t.

    Do you guys have suggestions?

    Any idea is so much appreciated!!

  • February 4, 2021 at 7:44 am #14335806
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    The blue highlighting makes me think that the whole paragraph has local formatting on it. You may need to remove local overrides.

    Here are a few suggestions:
    Do as much cleanup in Word as possible before importing.
    Save as DOCX (instead of .doc… or save as .doc instead of .docx)
    Here are some additional articles that may help in cleanup:

    Import Word Files into InDesign, Remove Local Formatting but Keep Italics and Bold

    5 Ways of Removing Overrides Applied to Paragraphs

    Strip the Crud from Word Files Before You Map Styles

  • February 4, 2021 at 8:05 am #14335807
    Luca Baffa

    Participant

    Hi David,

    Thank you very much for your reply!

    The problem is that when (I assign an “italic” character style to the italicized text and) I clear the local overrides, part of the text is not being italicised (i.e. I get “Société Philotechnique” instead of “Société Philotechnique“).

    It feels like ID is unable to retain some of the italic from the Word document.

    Do you think it might be more plausible this to be a InDesign related problem or more a Word document issue?

  • February 4, 2021 at 8:14 am #14335810
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    I think it’s mostly likely a Word issue. But I do not know. Another idea is to make an italic character style in Word and apply it there (instead of a “local italic style”). InDesign can read Word character styles.

  • February 4, 2021 at 8:44 am #14335813
    Anne-Marie Concepcion

    Member

    Luca, possible to upload or link to this word doc? I’d love to take a look at it. (as the author of Word and InDesign course at lynda/linkedin) … thanks!

    AM

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