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• • April 8, 2015 at 2:11 am #74443
    Gábor Fodor

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    Hi Everybody!

    I have the following problem:

    I’m making a book which is released annually. It has an Index at the end. I need to import the corrected Word file into InDesign 5.5 which was exported in RTF last year. Word file has Index Fields which are “invisible” for InDesign. I could change in Word the Index Fields to a certain character: ¤ (easy to find and not in use in the file). I would like to change it to an Index marker in Indesgn but I don’t know how to do that, because if I write in the Find/Change fields the ^I, Indesign changes it to ^I not an index entry marker. Is there any possibility to do that or I have to forget it this way. Anyway, is there any possible solution for this, or every time I have to generate the whole index by making every single Index Entry?

    Thanks in advance:
    Gabor Fodor from Hungary

  • April 8, 2015 at 3:02 am #74445
    Anonymous

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    Hello,

    Most of the text we work with isn’t generated directly in InDesign it comes from text files, RTF files and more often then not Microsoft Word.There are a couple of ways to quickly get text from Word into InDesign.

    1.One is to go to the Word file copy it and paste it right in.Doing that brings in no formating whatsoever by default in InDesign, just strips everything away and you get plain text.

    2.The other option is to drag&drop from the Finder or Windows Explorer and that brings in all the formatting in the word file whether you want or not.

    The only way to establish some kind of middle ground and a happy medium that gives you some measure of control over how the text and styles from word find their way into your InDesign document is to use the place command.

    You will be using ‘Paragraph styles’ and ‘Character styles’ panels to improve your work.
    To place the text go to File->Place->Navigate to the .doc file.Before clicking open, make sure that you turn on ‘Show Import Options’.Opens up Microsoft Word Import Options.Then try to choose Custom Style Import and Style Mapping.Then try choosing your index style (Microsoft Word Style) with several InDesign styles.

    Hope this helps you!
    Regards,
    Atwork Abode

  • April 8, 2015 at 10:24 am #74454
    David Blatner

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    Gabor: I am not sure what you mean. InDesign DOES import Word index entries properly. (You can control that in the Import Options dialog box in the Place dialog box.)

  • April 12, 2015 at 11:07 pm #74576
    Gábor Fodor

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    Sorry for the late reply, I was busy in the last couple of days. Last year in this book an index had been generated in InDesign. Then I was asked to export the text into rtf format, if there would be some correction then the institute could do it. I got back this rtf format in docx format with the InDesign index markers with the following format: {xe:”something”}something. But this markers had disappeared when I imported the docx file into Indesign. Then I changed the extension to doc (aka 97-2003) format and the index markers remained in InDesign as well. So in my opinion when you import Word file with docx extension the index entries won’t be brought to InDesign, just when you do it from a doc file. That was my problem. But I managed to solve it by changing the extension of the Word file. Thank you for your answer.

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