For me I found an easier way, I have a pdf copy of the original word doc. I open in Acrobat, go to each page and select all, choose Edit With and choose Illustrator. The entire page opens up in AI and I copy and paste all the elements in one shot right to a new InDesign doc with the same page size. It also leave the background in a layer so I can turn off the layers when I need to line the new text up as the table lines, frame objects are all in the exact place they need to be. I set the margins outside of the elements so none will be placed outside. So now I have the layered file page by page in InDesign but now since most of the text is outlines I need to re create text boxes with the original font. The doc is 68 pages so its a lot of work but the good part is I only see 4 styles I need to use so I will create those in ID and take it form there. If you look at the screenshots the original doc is quite complicated so this way I have what is like a ready made template, now all I add is the text. Thoughts?
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