Importing the footnotes in your .docx should work just fine. Strange.

You might try Maggying the Word doc and saving as a new file, see if that solves any problems. I have a chapter in my Smarter Workflows with Word and InDesign course (just published on LinkedIn) that’s all about quick fix techniques, and RTF roundtrip and Maggying are a couple of them.

To Maggy a file, open it in Word, Select all, Shift>Left Arrow to deselect the final return, Copy, create a new Word file, Paste, Save with a different name. That removes some internal corruption. Worth a shot.

AM
PS Here’s the Maggying video: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/smarter-workflows-with-indesign-and-word/remove-internal-corruption-in-word

Hey I love the look of the finished book!

I’m glad you found the best solution for your project here. I loved reading all of the contributions.

350 jokes in 4 hours, that’s amazing! Is there anywhere we can buy it? (even as a PDF?)

I could use it w/my grandkids ;-)

AM

When you import the Word file, choose Show Import Options. To strip out most of the strange Word styles but retain the bolds and italics and so on, choose the option “Remove Styles and Formatting” but turn on the checkbox immediately below that says “Preserve Locsl Overrides”.

You can often then just apply an ID paragraph style to the paragraph, and by default it will not override local formatting, so your bolds and italics remain intact.

Best practice is to create and apply character styles to those local overrides, either in Word before you bring it in, or in InDesign afterwards. There are a number of shortcuts and even free scripts that will do that for you. I cover all of these pretty thoroughly in my course on LinkedIn Learning, “Using InDesign and Word Together”:
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/word-and-indesign-integration/welcome

Note that an updated version of this course will be published in the next few weeks. It’s called “Smarter Workflows with InDesign and Word.”

I hear ya, Rivkah!

Honestly I would tend to go with my way because there are 50% fewer text frames needed (as opposed to David’s solution), and no need to copy/paste … just Shift-drag the blue anchor box that’s on the answer frames to the empty paragraph returns.

And I just think it’s easier to control the layout with a paragraph style for the anchored frames .. like if you want to change alignment or space above/below … than with threaded frames. Also, imagine having to rearrange the order of items, as you mentioned. What a nightmare with threaded frames. Far easier to just use the Type tool to cut and paste the question and the anchored answer.

Here is something that will save you time regardless of which solution you choose. Create one text frame with all the punchlines/answers in it, one after the other, separated by a single paragraph return.

Then run the free Split Text Frame script from Ajar Productions, here:

Split Text Extension for InDesign

That will convert the single text frame into multiple ones, each with a single paragraph.

Now you can drag-select over all of them (however many you fit in the starting text frame), make sure your proxy point is the center of the grid, and choose Object > Transform > Rotate 180.

AM

Sarah, sorry to say there is no way to print out the comments.

But if you have a screen shot utility that can record a scrolling frame inside a web page, like Snagit from TechSmith (what I use), then you can make sure to view and expand all comments and then capture the comment panel as you scroll through it.

Not much help I know! But at least it’s something.

For the next project, it might be good to enable Track Changes in All Stories from InDesign’s Type menu. Then as you implement the requested changes, InDesign will track them. It’ll only show you as the author of all the changes though.

I deal with folks working off a server all the time and have not heard this at all, but I’ll check.

Perhaps someone got confused when they heard that Adobe was dropping support for Type 1 fonts in 2023?

AM