Hi,
When I’m asked to produce Policy documents and Terms and Conditions I’m usually supplied a Word doc from the client, for the large part they have well applied styles to the text making it nice and easy for me to map the InDesign style. The InDesign styled layout will start with a numbered bullet eg. ‘1’ and some text, then underneath that and indented further ‘1.1’ and text, then maybe underneath that and indented further again ‘1.1.1’ etc. So I can take the Word styles ‘bullet indent 1’ and map it to ‘bullet indent 1’ for example.
However now and again I’ll receive a Word doc that has ‘Normal’ applied to everything, there are multiple ‘manual’ indents of paragraphs relating to the 1, 1.1, 1.1.1 etc so it ‘looks’ ok but I’m having difficulty targeting those indented paragraphs with my Styles when I import the Word doc.
For instance, the first numbered bullet will have the Word ‘Normal’ style applied and has 12.506 mm left indent, -12.506 mm first line indent with a 12.506 mm tab separating the number and text. Using Find and Change I key in the numbers into the Find format > indents and spacing fields but it finds nothing. Weirdly if I style a bit of text with any Indesign style, then manually apply the same indents and then do the same Find search it’s successful.
So, is there some invisible rubbish brought over from Word that hides the indent data from InDesign’s Find and if so is there a way of overcoming it?
Thank you.
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