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• • August 2, 2012 at 1:06 pm #62743
    Anonymous

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    Hello from the novice but dedicated Texas Hill Country CS5 Indesigner.

    I flowed a 339 page, facing pages Word document into my Indesign CS5. I created my Indesign margins ahead of time.

    It really looked right….until I started putting back in all the Styles (lost all the bold, italics, etc)…and I noticed that the bottom of the Word pages were a good single line below my frame, and the outer Word margins were a character space too far in.

    I've been using the Selection tool on each page I work on to pull the bottom back up (pushes a line out of the bottom margin onto the next page where it belongs) and outer margins back out (adds an extra letter to each line, which I need).

    WHAT A PAIN.

    Is there not any way to get ALL the Word pages to cooperate with the frame (bottom up a line; outer margins in a character)??

  • August 2, 2012 at 1:24 pm #62745
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Go TX Hill Country! (I have family from Boerne.) ;)

    You're saying that the text is actually sitting outside the text frame? That seems REALLY weird.

    I'm not sure why you lost your bold and italic. That sounds weird.

    A couple of articles:

    https://creativepro.com/imp…..d-bold.php

    and

    https://creativepro.com/str…..styles.php

  • August 5, 2012 at 9:47 pm #62760
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Yes, the bottom margin of what I placed from Word was a space beyond the set Indesign frame, and the outer page margin of text was one character WITHIN the frame. It was maddening having to fix 339 pages with two margin fixes per page, one by one by one.

    I lost all the italics and bold because I couldn't place the RTF file or the Indesign file sent me. The RTF file only loaded 17 pages (and though I studied the Overset, could find nothing to explain it), and the Indesign file needed plugins. Maddening.

    I have two more Word Doc books to format in the wings, and all I can do is read your videos again and follow them to a T…and PRAY I don't have the same issues. It wasn't fun.

    P.S. Boerne–love the rodeo and other activities they put on over there.

  • August 6, 2012 at 12:49 am #62768
    Gert Verrept

    Member

    Doodlebug, when you imoprt an rtf file, and then apply a para style, it can be that some formatting gets lost. For the “bolds and italics” look on the site for the “preptext” script. Place the rtf file, run the preptext script FIRST and you'll notice some char style to be added. When applying afterwards a para style, the bold and italics should still be there. Make sure the formatting in your rtf files contains the bolds and italics of cource.

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