Copy/Paste from TextEdit WhatsApp convo: emojis go to pink X's

[elizabethm29876002]

I have a txt document of a long whatsapp conversation. The emojis show up perfectly in the txt doc. If I copy/paste or if I import the conversation into InDesign, the emojis become pink highlighted Xs.

If I highlight one and change the font to Apple Emoji, the correct emoji appears.

Problem is the conversation is long enough that there must be a more automatic way to do this for the whole document than highlight and change each one. Any suggestions?

Thanks

[Jongware]

1. Add a character style called "emoji" that only applies your Emoji font of choice.

2. Add a GREP style to your chat text paragraph style that applies this character style "emoji" to the following GREP expression:

[\x{1f000}-\x{1fffff}]+

3. There is no step 3. 🙀

[elizabethm29876002]

Awesome I will try this too.

[elizabethm29876002]

Solved by copy/pasting in TextEdit. New doc is rtf, if I then save this and use Place... in InDesign, the text and emojis all paste 🙂