How to import Word text into InDesign without losing basic formatting

This a demonstration of one method of importing text from Microsoft Word, into Adobe InDesign, that prevents the loss of basic text formatting by using a combination of import settings, character styles and find/replace. It avoids importing the problematic Word document styles, and leaves you with an InDesign file with cleanly formatted styles, and no overrides.
#indesign #microsoftword #tutorial
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Full written tutorial is available at:
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Timecodes
00:00 Introduction
00:15 Microsoft Word Styles
02:10 How to Place text into InDesign
02:48 InDesign text import options settings
04:51 Changing Inline Formatting to Character Styles
08:55 Character Style benefits and clearing overrides
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[billpholde]

I just created a 208 page catalog in InDesign using word docs. The italics and super scripting were a goddamn nightmare. Could've used this! Thank you for this incredibly useful

[eaglegirl]

THANK YOU!!! you saved me so much work! footnotes and endnotes suddenly appear perfectly.

[atlanteum]

As a literal first-time-as-of-today user, Thank You for all of your videos demystifying inDesign!

[dreamtowermedia]

Man, SO HELPFUL. Thank you very much for this. Also, you cracked me up with "beyond any sane person's understanding." How often I have felt that way when using programs!

[frankderbar]

Thank you so much! This just saved me 100+ hours for setting the italics manually.

[johnhall]

Thanks so much. I've been using InDesign for 20 years (and Quark before it) but the crap Word files some of my clients send me still stump me on this sometimes., and I always need a refresher on some of this.

[lalon]

instantly subscribed to your channel. thank you so much. I wish my teacher in the university taught me this.

[jansoul]

Finally a tutorial that solved the problem. THANK YOU!

[galgalonce]

Excellent, thank you! Keep it up man good stuff and very well delivered

[wowfactorpix]

Thank you very much for this tutorial. Just what I needed to know when importing Google Docs files saved locally as .RTF (with basic formatting like italics and bold) and then into my InDesign document, and having the basic formatting honoured and converted to InDesign character styles.

[Paulic]

Great video. But when I follow these steps and place my word doc, it doesn't look anything like my word file? All the formatting is gone completely. Can anyone advise?

[galgalonce]

Thanks again sir! If I could like it again I would

[shannonedens]

Thank you! I have to format a glossary of 1000 items over about 120 pages, so this really helped!

[hestervantoorenburg]

This has been extremely helpful! Thank you!

[kristinawikoff-edstrom]

Thank you so much!!! This is awesome- and very much appreciated that you took the time to make this video- so helpful!

[darrenwalters]

Super useful help to incredibly frustrating problems. Just, thank you.

[biancamera]

thank you really saved my life. god bless you

[jorty.]

Workind with Indesign CC and find/change cant find any match....no idea what I do wrong but I followed your instruction to the letter. Any ideas?

[deadpixelguardian]

Thank you very much! This is very useful. Please tell me if there is a way to change the text size only for the footnotes, taking in account that footnotes have italic, bold and regular text. Thank you!

[AIRLINE]

Hi, I followed your method, which worked brilliantlyThe problem, tho, was when there were changes in the MS Word document. I placed the document with the option of it being a link. When it gets changed and I need to update the link inside InDesign it warns me all edits will be lost, I click Ok and, an, in fact, all the changes I did are gone, or even worse, some are there, some are lost, the thing becomes a mess. Do you know any workaround I can use, please?