Italics spotty from imported Word documents

1. Did you work in Word with paragraph Styles and Character Styles? Both should be applied. Avoid manual formatting.
2. Check if your used font has these characters defined. Some fonts are incomplete. Look into InDesign’s Glyph Panel. 

Soooo.. I tried a couple of things:

Other than the .rtf route, which works, I tried a couple of other things:

1. I saved the document backwards to an old-school .doc file, and it imported just fine.

2. I modified your Style for the footnotes in the original Word file to a different font (ANY font other than Palatino Linotype), and saved that as a .docx... THAT imported fine.

So, something doesn't like that Palatino Linotype

😂 

@vladan saveljic that is a much faster solution! Marking it as correct, as it worked with the test file.

~Barb 

Ah. I see the issue. The accented characters in the footnote are using Palatino Linotype in Word, but mapping to Arial Italic and Regular when placed in InDesign. 

You can address this either in Word or in InDesign.

• To fix it prior to import, just create a character style in Word— perhaps call it Italics—and assign it to the italics text prior to import. Create a character style in InDesign with the same name. Then use InDesign's style mapping to map the Word character style to the InDesign character style. (Screen shots below.)
• If you want to handle this in InDesign, you will need to Find/Change the italics to an italics character style, use Tyep Find/Replace Font to find Arial regular and Arial italic and change it to your desired font and then clear overrides. 

~Barb 

It comes in just fine for me, using the default settings, meaning that Import options isn't checked in Place dialog box.

~Barb 

Are you able to share the Word document by any chance? Are you able to determine if there's a difference in formatting within Word between the elements that are and are not working?