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Targeting an object style on Word import: Possible?

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    • October 2, 2010 at 3:34 pm #57216
      Aleta El Sheikh
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      I am trying to automate, as much as possible, a monthly newspaper layout, and all of the stories are submitted as Word docs, which I import cleanly, with only local overrides. Let's say I have an object style for my default Basic Text Frame that has my headline paragraph style specified in it. My headline paragraph style's “next” style is “subhead,” the subhead style's “next” style is “byline,” and then the next one is “body text.” So I'm trying to get my completed article in one operation, provided it has all those elements.

      The issue is that when the Word doc imports, the text frame it creates is targeting the “None” object style instead of the Basic Text frame object style which has all my cascading styles attached. I still have to click that object style to apply it. Since I am importing 50-60 word docs, that extra click per story adds up. Is there any way to change that behavior?

      Added: I am using InDesign CS5.

    • October 4, 2010 at 6:16 am #57231
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      I believe this is a bug having to do with the Place feature. Perhaps try the place gun frame trick explained here?

      https://creativepro.com/app…..-image.php

    • October 6, 2010 at 7:31 pm #57264
      Aleta El Sheikh
      Participant

      Thank you, David! I haven't tried the Place Gun Frame trick yet, and I hope it still works. Strange that they didn't fix the bug in CS5.

    • October 7, 2010 at 5:15 am #57276
      Theunis De Jong
      Member

      In CS4, it does work with images as described in that post, but not with text files.

      Pity …

    • October 7, 2010 at 12:50 pm #57283
      Alan Gilbertson
      Participant

      One thing that might ease the pain, since you probably have nothing else in the document with an object style of “[None]” would be to do all the imports then Find/Replace “[None]” with “[Basic Text Frame]” so it all happens in one shot. It'll save you some clicks, at any rate. That said, it's a best practice not to mess with those basic styles (object, paragraph, character) in case you ever need to move content to another document or open one on a different system that still has the defaults. Better to name the style explicitly, then you know you're safe.

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