Prevent three dots replacement with ellipsis

[__Daniel__]

Hi,

I am copying some text outside of InDesign and pasting it into InDesign document while keeping the formatting. The problem is that all instances of 3 dots are being replaced with ellipsis and formatting changes too (for example font). How to prevent this?

Regards,

Daniel

[__Daniel__]

Not all, these here are ok:

But this have replaced font too:

Why?

[__Daniel__]

Turns out even this is not all yet

It randomly changes colors of teh font:

>>> part is red everywhere, even in teh place where I copied it from. Why does it do this to me?

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

Try this: create a new ID document and place the whole Word doc in it. Cut and paste from that.

[Peter Spier]

That, I think, may be the best suggestion.

[__Daniel__]

I will check this, but I already found that using Wordpad works as well and I should be able to simply load the docxdocument in Wordpad. The only thig is I;m using Word, and more specifically a diff tool to find out what has changed and update ID document accordingly.

Thank you for your suggestion, though.

[pixxxelschubser]

I did something similar a few years ago. But with plain text and a combination of character and paragraph formats with grep styles.

It requires a lot of prep work, but after that you can have many unformatted codes automatically formatted in InDesign.