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Glitch while pasting text from Mac into two column frame layout, the letter "I" disappears

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July 6, 2023
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The weirdest InDesign glitch I've ever encountered. I'm laying out a book with text pasted from Mac Pages into frames in a two-column layout. I'm receiving various texts that have to be arranged alphabetically, so I can't place files. Anyhow, everything is fine BUT when an entry starts with a word beginning with a capital "I"...the letter I drops out or disappears. It only happens with that letter. The body text is nothing odd, just Calibri. I'm using the latest version of ID for Mac. Here's a screenshot.

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Hi @Conquest , You probably could get that to happen via a Paragraph Style’s Grep Style. Does it happen if you a apply a different style or no style?

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Rob, I have no GREP styles.

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Can you share the Pages file and the ID doc—you can attach them to a reply

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If you pasted text from Mac Pages into a text editor, then copy paste into Indesign, does the issue still happen?

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I haven't tried that. Although that may cause other problems, such as losing italics. Do you think the source of the problem is Pages?

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I would try exporting RTF from Pages, and importing into Indesign, this should retain formatting.