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Grundoon Groundhog
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April 22, 2024
Question

Flowed text acquires undesired styles

  • April 22, 2024
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I am working on a bibliography whose text includes all the usual font weights plus some words in all caps, some in small caps. Variations are from paragraph to paragraph. The Word document has been prepared to accommodate these differences. When it is flowed into InDesign, many peculiar things happen. Entire paragraphs are all caps, are italics, are both etc. No character styles have been applied. There should be one for the first word of the paragraph; this is not applied with the paragraph style. When the text is flowed in  the various caps, italics, small caps etc. must be maintained while allowing the regular text to be regular text.

 

I just checked a previous version, and this problem was not occurring. I did change the font, but surely that wouldn't cause this problem?

 

Why would this happen? What do I do? I' am attaching the original Word document and the InDesign document. Any help greatly appreciated.

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James Gifford—NitroPress
James Gifford—NitroPress
Legend
April 22, 2024

I haven't looked at the files, but are the applied overrides in Word assigned character styles, or just spot overrides? If the formatting is spot overrides, it can be hard for the import to follow the changes. The reliable method is to use ONLY defined character styles for these running changes, and that includes bold, italic and underlilne. (That is, there should be defined character styles named Bold, Italic, BoldItalic, etc., and not a reliance on even Word's spot formatting for these things.)

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    Grundoon GroundhogAuthor
    Inspiring
    April 22, 2024

    Unfortunately the text is being copyedited and I don't know if those styles have been applied in the Word documents. It would be impossible to impose them in InDesign as there are so many occurrences of each format. Would overriding overrides in ID work somehow?

    silvia_vc
    silvia_vc
    Participating Frequently
    August 21, 2024

    At this point, there essentially are no page layout apps other than InDesign, so I am not sure what comparison you want to make here. Do you have specific examples of what some other/older/alternative app does that InDesign does not?

     

    Note that every single user has a wishlist of features that would solve some workflow problem that is rarely used or unique to them, or a desire that existing features worked in some different way, but that will be true no matter how fully an app is "optimized."


    no conocés Quark Xpress? Permite cambiar la tipografía de un texto completo manteniendo Italics, bold, bold italic, etc.

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