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jordynne2837770
jordynne2837770
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August 23, 2021
Question

Text disappears when I format to Italics in InDesign

  • August 23, 2021
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I have copied (command C) and pasted (command V) several paragraphs from a MS Word doc into an exisiting textframe that I have already formated in InDesign. The InDesign doc is from a previous news bulletin that I saved as a template to use each month. It's my second month doing the bulletin. The font is Adobe Garamond Pro. In the Word doc from my client, there is an italic heading. Since I didn't use (Command D) to place the text into my InDesign doc, it pastes the text without carrying over any of the MS Word formatting. So I go to manually change the heading to italic. . . and it disappears. I try making a paragraph style to change it, a character style, and nothing works. I can highlight the heading and use any other paragraph style to change the formatting and it does NOT disappear.... does anyone out there know the solution?

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Ashutosh_Mishra
Ashutosh_Mishra
Inspiring
September 12, 2021

Hi there,

 

Sorry to hear about your experience. In addition to the helpful suggestions given earlier, I'd request you to disable the GPU Performance(under Preferences) of the app & see if it makes a difference.

Please share version of the Os & InDesign as well. Looking forward to your response.

 

Regards,

Ashutosh

Derek Cross
Community Expert
Derek CrossCommunity Expert
Community Expert
August 23, 2021

Tick when Placing your Word document  in InDesign tick Show Import Options

You will then get this dialogue box to help you match Word Styles Styles to InDesign Styles.

Diane Burns
Diane Burns
Inspiring
August 23, 2021

To add to Derek's reply: Once you've successfully placed the text, you may want to apply paragraph styles. If you do that, and need to clear overrides, the italic will be lost. You can prevent that by:

1. Create a character style for italic

2. Go to Edit menu > Find/Change

3. Under text, go to the bottom and look for formatting. 

4. FIND: italic text CHANGE to: the italic Character style you created.

5. This will cause your italic to stay italic, even if you apply Paragraph styles and clear overrides.

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