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export InDesign style list

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September 28, 2021
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Is there a way to capture the style list from an InDesign document? I woul like a list of the formatting for each style I created in a particular document. My boss wants me to recreate the look of an InDesign document in Word (yes i know and feel free to roll your eyes). I'm the only one with InDesign in my office, everyone else has MS Office. So he wants a template that Word users can use that will still have the look and feel of our marketing materials.

Correct answer rob day

so........ did you get it to work?

Worked for me in 2020—I exported a tab delimited text file and opened it in Numbers. 111 columns.

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Linda24415233u1d0

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If you have all your style sheet applied to an indesign file, even it is is just a paragraph mark. Then export the text to a .rtf file file and open it in word all your styles will be there. you can also apply a character style to a word space at the same time and they will be there too. Super easy.

JonathanArias

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another thing you can do is take your indesign layout. export to .pdf. From acrobat you can save as a word document. Now, acrobat does not keep the styles data from indesign. So, you would need to open the document from word and name styles as you work your way down the document.

maryr34816705Author

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The issue is not re-creating the styles in Word, I can do that. I'm looking for a way to print or capture a list of the formatting for each style. I know in Word that you can print list of styles used in the document, such as the one pictured below. I would like to do this same thing in InDesign.

maryr34816705Author

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have you looked at this?:

http://www.kasyan.ho.ua/indesign/export/export_styles_description_settings_to_csv.html

Yes I saw that, but its 7 years old. Has anyone tried this with CC 2021?

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hi,

Not sure why this would get an eye roll. I do this all the time and its actually easier on word than indesign. At least i think so. I make the templates in word from scratch. what exactly are you not confortable doing from word?

this course helped me:

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/word-2019-essential-training/get-acquainted-with-the-power-of-word-2019?u=76821178

cheers

jonathan

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