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123 Mapping Word styles to InDesign styles

123 Mapping Word styles to InDesign styles - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

123 Mapping Word styles to InDesign styles

Here we have a lovely Word document, a brief history of San Francisco. That a writer has written. And here in, InDesign we have a brief history of San Francisco, the layout document. Into which I as the designer want to import that Word file into these waiting text frames. Right? Very common scenario, let's go back to Word. I want to to show you a way that you can get those Word files into your InDesign layouts with a minimum of fuss and maintaining all of your formatting in InDesign. Because I see so often designers who, every time they place a Word file, they strip out all of the formatting, because it's just easier for them to start from scratch and sometimes that might be the best solution. But if the Word user applies styles fairly consistently, not perfectly but just fairly consistently and you have styles in your InDesign document ready to go then you can do something called mapping styles, as you import the Word file it will automatically take on the correct styles in…

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