Placing portrait word document into landscape indesign

Any chance the Word document has paragraph returns at the end of each line, instead of letting it wrap to the margins?

you should Edit the text doc into your new indesign documet, the text will fit to new text frame you draw and you apply a new styles and fonts... etc..

make new text frame in indesign, file> Place> yourdoc file.

and start your new design, no matter it is a landscape or portrait.

alexm88103858  wrote Hi tried placing portrait document into landscape indesign hoping it would automatically adjust.

Hi Alex,

Every time I read this, I interpret it a different way.

• Is the "portrait document" a Word document or an InDesign document? If it's an InDesign document, it is placed as a linked PDF and it won't automatically adjust to a different width page.

• Did it come from Word and it didn't adjust? Turn on Show Hidden Characters and look for paragraph returns or line breaks that need to be removed.

• Is it a Word file and the frame is too narrow? Resize the frame to the width of the margins.

If nothing so far is correct (including earlier responses), please clarify.

Hi Alex:

Is the Word doc all text? In that case, when you place the file it will flow into the format that you have set up in InDesign. If there are tables, text boxes and picture boxes they will require manual adjustment.

Use File > New to create the portrait document, setting up the margins and the columns. Use File > Place to import the Word file, then Sh+click at the top of column one to auto-flow all of the text.

~Barb

It looks like you're zero-newbie. Text from word will re-flow as you will prepare frames in InDesign.

Let's start here InDesign tutorial: How to import Microsoft Word files | lynda.com - YouTube

Then read help more carefully and if have some cents buy full Lynda videos for InDesign beginners then look it and do it.