Suppress missing font alert

You can suppress the error by changing your preflight profile, which determines what kind of checks are performed. To do that, go to "Define Profiles ..." in the Preflight panel, deselect "Text > Font missing", and click "Save".

Would Peter Kahrel's place docs script be of any assistance?

Place documents | Peter Kahrel

If the workflow is such that the author retains complete control of all formatting and the font warnings are "false-flags", I can see how that would be a frustration. In my circumstances as a commercial printer, the dialog is a necessary evil that assists with due diligence. When receiving artwork from another party, it can be vitally important for items such as artwork that contains foreign languages, formatting books with math equations just to name a couple of instances.

Hi Dcroatt:

There isn't a specific command for this in InDesign, although you could request it here: Wishform - Adobe InDesign

It may be possible via scripting. You could ask here: InDesign Scripting​.

Otherwise, working within the current InDesign feature set—you could:

• Edit the Word files to remove references to fonts you don't have;
• Install the fonts you are missing; or
• Edit InDesign's Import options to Remove Styles and Formatting from Text and Tables, including local overrides (but note that local overrides includes the removal of bold, italics, etc on words within a paragraph).

~Barb