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Map Word styles to InDesign styles

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Map Word styles to InDesign styles

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- [Instructor] It's a common workflow to place text in InDesign that has been created in Word. Word uses styles in a similar way to InDesign. If the Word document you're placing has styles you can map them to your InDesign styles. Here's an event listing, this is recreated every month. When it's time for next month's listings, I want to reuse the styles I already have. I'll delete the text, double click to insert my cursor into the text frame, Command A to select all and delete. Before I place the text, let's just take a look at it in Word. We see that its appearance is quite different. Styles, if we look up here, have been used, but their names are different. Returning to InDesign, if I place this text, file and place, we see that the Word styles are imported. Take a look here on my paragraph styles panel. And I have to swap my Word styles for my InDesign styles. I'll press undo twice to go back to the point before I place the text. Now I'm going to place it again, but this time, I'm…

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