Ugly black strip when placing Word doc in InDesign

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August 25, 2018
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Have a look at this - the selected item. This happens SOMETIMES when placing a regular Word doc in our little community newspaper. If I delete it and try again with the same doc, it might work perfectly. What does it mean? If I click on the red '+' there's nothing there. Help please, it's slowing us down and print deadline approaches

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Correct answer Francesco Della Peruta

please take a look here:

Lines in word document imported to InDesign

barbara_a7746676

Community Expert

You could try clicking inside the text frame with the Type tool and choosing Edit > Edit in Story Editor. That will show you a word processing view. If you scroll down to the bottom, any overset text will show and be indicated with a red bar. You may be able to see if there is something in the paragraph that could easily be deleted.

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jenpen2525Author

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Thanks Francesco and Bob. Right now we're copy&pasting text as a workaround as deadline is upon us and it's only a few documents, not everything. We'll definitely check out your suggestions before next month. But I had a quick look at your link, Francesco, and we can't delete all our paragraph styles and rebuild them just for one document---there are about 20 of them.

BobLevine

Community Expert

Looks like either paragraph shading or a paragraph rule. Put your cursor in there and open the paragraph panel to find out if that type of format is in there.