Importing a Word document, InDesign 2023 corrupts the paragraph styes (badly)

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March 12, 2023
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I've ben using beta's for InDesign and other Adobe products for several years now bcause their products are so unreliable on Macs. I just tried to use InDesign 2023 on a spare mac, an M1 MBA and importing a Word Document (exported from Pages) into InDesign the mapping of Paragraph and Character styles into InDesign Para and Char styles got pretty badly borked up.

All the imported paragraph stlyes (~12 of them) had numerous coruptions of each style, but the corruptions were consistently the same on each style. InDesign added
i. Keep Options > Start each new para on "a new page"

ii. A black border to each para style

iii. Black shading to each para style.

And that's what Ive discovered so far, possibly more borking.

I'm honestly wondering if Adboe have any QA departments of InDesign and Illustrator in existence any more because how major release software can be released without gettign checked for EVERY function that people use amazes me. THat is certainly what must be happening, there are so many appalingly job blocking bugs Adobe should be ashmaed. Adobe's lack of ability to ix bugs even when identified by some many users in Beta programs and their various feedback channels means that the code base itself is a stinking mess. I know that Adobe now has a common code base for Windows and Mac versions, including UI elements wrtting in Javascript of all bug ridden things and that could be where a lot of problems are coming from. Typically when applications are developed on Windows in C++ and ported to Mac there are a metric s-h-i-t-t-o-n-n-e of UI/UX bugs to iron out because they didn't use standard Apple frameworks to build the front end of the application.

We all know Adboe has preferenced PC users for decades, for one thing because they have less product offereings on PC to compete with in the DTP and film editting space than on Macs. Its hard not to ask the question are Adobe delibrately shafting mac users, because that is what it has looked like for the three or more years.

Import and export

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BobLevine

Community Expert

So, you're designing in Pages and then saving as Word and then bringing that into InDesign and you think InDesign is the weak link?

Everything you're describing in your post are things I've seen with Word files saved from other applications such as Google Docs and Pages. If you need Word files, use Word.

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

So, you're designing in Pages and then saving as Word and then bringing that into InDesign and you think InDesign is the weak link?

🙂

Word is a somewhat fragile format at best; it grows spines when it's an export from some third app like Pages, Docs, and even Acrobat.

I can't find anywhere that says ID is supposed to be Word-native. Just allowing of a very controlled import to give a structured starting point for ID formatting.

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Eugene Tyson

Community Expert

Report bugs or make a feature request

https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html

Derek Cross

Community Expert

I've been using InDesign on a Mac since version 1, and I don't accept your assertions about InDesign and Adobe, some of which, are frankly absurd.

If you want to learn how to use MSWord documents with InDesign, you might consider looking at the excellent Linkedin Learning online video course "Smarter Workflows with InDesign and Word", you can get 30-days free access.

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/smarter-workflows-with-indesign-and-word?trk=learning-serp_learning-search-card_search-card&upsellOrderOrigin=default_guest_learning

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Alastair LAuthor

Inspiring

thanks dude, I've been using it since v1 too, and Quark Xpres and Ready Set Go before that. I did my first DTP projects in MacDraw for science subject lab reports while at school. 🙂

I konw how to import a document and how to map stlyes.

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