Text pastes as single paragraph when copying from external source.

[princessselsa]

Title says it all, whenever I paste text from any external source into InDesign, it pastes a single paragraph, getting rid of any line breaks and indents that were in the source. The issue does not occur when pasting the same source on a different computer. I have tried resetting prefs, uninstalling InDesign and getting rid of everything to no avail.

Thanks for the help,

Asa Bensaid

[Derek Cross]

Don’t use Paste, use Place and use the Word import options dialogue box to map your Word Styles to your InDesign Paragraph and Character Styles.

Lynda.com have a very good in-depth online video tutorial on how to do this (you can get a 30-day free trial):

Word and InDesign: Integration

[fenjas29325284]

Try this setting in Preferences > Clipboard handling:

But with Microsoft Word files Derek's hint is the best way.

Fenja