over 6000 variations of a single font listed

[Grundoon Groundhog]

I am using a MAC with the Sonoma 14.3.1 system. I have imported a complex document into InDesign 19.4. from Microsoft Word. Its bold, italic, all caps formatting must be preserved, but I want to change the base font from Times Roman to Brigade (available in Creative Cloud). When I went to Find/Replace font over instances of 6000 Times Roman fonts were listed, with the Bold or Italic, etc. repeated incessantly. It's as if each instance is a distinctly different font.

If I select a group of them to replace, the number of fonts goes down by one, no matter how many have been selected. (See screen shotsb elow)/

I tried using "change format" but most of the Times Roman did not change.

In addition, some of the formatting is lost when I import. An entire line that begins with a bold word becomes bold in InDesign, when only the first word is bold in Microsoft Word.

Are there settings I should impose to solve these problems? Maybe I'm stuck with Times Roman. But I don't want to go through this lengthy document to fix the import errors, either.

[Grundoon Groundhog · Accepted solution]

I have solved the problem by saving the Word document in Rich Text Format. What a relief.

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

You've learned. Weird behavior from an ID or Word file == corruption == do the purge cycle. 🙂

[Grundoon Groundhog]

What is the purge cycle? I'm sure I'm all for it.

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

More or less what you did.

In Word, save to RTF, then open that file and save under a new name to DOCX.

In InDesign, export to IDML, then open that file and save under a new name to INDD.

Both will purge unneeded data from the file and often fix broken file structures that are causing bizarre faults.

It's also good practice to do a Save-As under a new name (such as an interative backup name) at least once a day on both types. That does some cleanup things, and gives you a chain of backups as well. (You can manually delete all but the last few of them every few days.)

[Grundoon Groundhog]

Thanks; excellent advice which I will follow.