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1. I have composed my bilingual English-Urdu dictionary in Microsoft Word.
1. It is in single-column table.
2. English font is Garamond size 11 and Urdu font is Nafees Web Naskh size 11.
3. Page width 6 inch, length 8.5 inch.
4. Header: page nos. aligned left and right. Caption in the centre. No footer.
4. Chapter headings A to Z in bold.
5. I want to remove table.
6. I want to retain formatting (bold and italics).
5. Approximate no of typed pages 1000. Print version.
Kindly advise the best course to paste the Word file into InDesign frame.
The suggestion to finish the book to page layout in Word is a good one, especially if you are more familiar with Word than with InDesign. Even just replicating what you have in Word will require learning a lot of ID features that are mapped and implemented differently.
For text-only books, Word can do a very acceptable page layout. I've reviewed and edited textbooks with very elaborate page design laid out in Word, and while I think it's completely the wrong tool for such complex layouts it ca
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Yes, you should be able to just import the Word file as-is, but this is a good case to tend to all the details. As a start:
Hope that's a good start. Feel free to ask additional questions!
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100% endorse what James has said here; it's what I'd do. I would add that you say "paste the Word file into InDesign frame" in your first post, and "import" in your second post. If your DTP man is competent, he'll know to Place that document into an InDesign document.
Also, in keeping with James' comments regarding managing character styles for bold and italic in Word, I would wonder if it would make sense to Convert Table to Text in Word before attempting to Place the Word doc into ID. It's not a complicated table, so there most likely wouldn't be problems induced when placing the document. That's what I'd hope for, at any rate.
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Thanks to all.
1. "Place" route is accepted.
2. I am unable to replace italics in Word by character style. Don't know what it is.
3. Now what instructions should be given to the DTP man to proceed to import the Word book to InDesign under "Place".
4. Book Width and length is 6 inch x 8 inch.
5. I want to place the header in the center with odd and even pages on the edges.
6. Will the InDesign convert the final text to PDF?
I am a novice in this field. Proper guidance shall be a boon to print the book meticulously.
Thanks again
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100% endorse what James has said here; it's what I'd do. I would add that you say "paste the Word file into InDesign frame" in your first post, and "import" in your second post. If your DTP man is competent, he'll know to Place that document into an InDesign document.
Also, in keeping with James' comments regarding managing character styles for bold and italic in Word, I would wonder if it would make sense to Convert Table to Text in Word before attempting to Place the Word doc into ID. It's not a complicated table, so there most likely wouldn't be problems induced when placing the document. That's what I'd hope for, at any rate.
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What is the reason that you need to do it in InDesign? If it's only text...
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The Word program is not meant for DTP. I regret that I am not trained to
use InDesign. As it is, my work in Word suffers from very many defects.
Hope for the best outcome.
Mahmood M
Aligarh, India
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The suggestion to finish the book to page layout in Word is a good one, especially if you are more familiar with Word than with InDesign. Even just replicating what you have in Word will require learning a lot of ID features that are mapped and implemented differently.
For text-only books, Word can do a very acceptable page layout. I've reviewed and edited textbooks with very elaborate page design laid out in Word, and while I think it's completely the wrong tool for such complex layouts it can be, and is, done.
I am not sure you will gain much from importing your book to InDesign and then spending much time struggling to achieve what you should be able to achieve more easily right in Word.
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Thank you for your comment.
M. Mahmood
Aligarh, India
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Just import your Word file - or copy&paste from Word - then convert table to text.