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Editing in both Word and InDesign - looking for alternative to WordsFlow

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
February 4, 2021
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I have my book set up already - with the help of good people here in the forum. But I am currently making corrections and I do these both in InDesign and Word.

To avoid this I see two options:
1) Use WordsFlow - but I work on a tight budget and don't want to buy it
2) Link the text to the Word file when creating an InDesign document - but I have my documents set up already

Is there a good solution to avoiding my current double-work?

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BobLevine

Community Expert

This discussion has clearly run its course and is now locked!

FRIdNGE

I'm not a “community expert” but, according to me, the good initial answer could be here:

What does your book look like?

(^/) The Jedi

Robert at ID-Tasker

Legend

@FRIdNGE

This 3 years old thread has been hijacked...

FRIdNGE

I saw the date (2021) but I confirm my comment!

(^/)

Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com

Legend

@Lorenzo33226162zhje, have you looked at InDesign's built-in tools for editing? Although basic, my clients find them to be very useful for many types of workflows.

InCopy: see https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/sharing-content.html
Story Editor: see view-source: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/editing-text.html#use_the_story_editor

FYI, unless you see the Adobe Logo next to someone's name, we're all just unpaid volunteers invited to help other users. We are not paid employees. Be nice to us because we don't have to do this. And we have absolutely no control over what Adobe programs into their apps.

All of my colleagues who have responded so far have decades of experience in graphic design and Adobe's products. It's your choice whether you want to listen or not.

|    Bevi Chagnon   |  Designer, Trainer, & Technologist for Accessible Documents ||    PubCom |    Classes & Books for Accessible InDesign, PDFs & MS Office |

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Lorenzo33226162zhje

Participating Frequently

The first polite answer, even though not that useful.

Thank you for explaining me who might be writing and to what goals. However - contrary to our belief in Europe that US customer care is really efficient - I felt a very unpleasant vibe.

More importantly, this is my own yet firm opinion, the issues I mentioned are there, and having "basic" funcionalities intead of full interoperability among packages that are on the market since ages has no justification whatsoever, other than business agreements at the expense of the users. Technically, if a third party plugin does indeed work, it is clearly feasible.

Voluntary or not, I hope we can in good faith agree that the lack of good interoperability between word and InDesign is a curse to anyone doing reserach work, where advanced word-processing tools must be available, along with decent desktop publishing features.

Again, being defensive or passive aggressive or "siding with ..." does not seem like a mature and useful stance, rahtehr a cowboy approach, we really despise here.

Thank you, waiting for a real (software) solution to the issue!

Best,

LC

BobLevine

Community Expert

A real solution exists. That you either don't want to try it or don't want to pay for it doesn't change that fact.

I'm finished here. Good luck.

BobLevine

Community Expert

Why can't you make all the changes in InDesign? Answer that, and we'll be in a much better position to help.

But linking Word files and making corrections there without Wordsflow is a fool's errand.

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simon5CD0Author

Inspiring

I probably could but prefer working with the text in Word.

But if there's no good solution other than Words flow, then I have my answer.

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Lorenzo33226162zhje

Participating Frequently

Yes, I really think we are letting Adobe exploit its de-facto monopoly delivering sub-par funcionalities, intricate menues and lack of basic and obious, easy-to-implement tools. I just wish by sharing external resources here and in other spaces we may finally get free of this inefficient dominance and finally have a wrod-processing + desktop publishing workflow in some streamlined and possibly open source package. I dare say, the very same US dominance in the tech field is clearly vanishing because of such common bad practices and frustrating user experience. My 1 €

Frans v.d. Geest

Community Expert

No, just invest in Wordsflow, otherwise you can adopt an InCopy workflow, but if you want Word-InDesign-Word and back you need Wordsflow.

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