![]() Thank you in advance for any help you can offer. Background: You may know that you can place Word files and link to them so that when the Word file changes, you can update it in InDesign. You would think that would do it - I have style conflicts for each of the styles I use (since I purposefully set up the InDesign file with styles of the same name), but instead new styles of the same name appear at the bottom of the style panels and, not surprisingly, the text appears how it looked in Word, not how it should look if the InDesign styles were imposed. When I file>place the Word doc and "show import options" it has "import styles automatically" set to "use InDesign style definition" for conflicts. I can do the mapping manually, but that's a pain given that I'll be creating one of these every couple of days. Instead I want them to map automatically to the InDesign styles I have set up with the same names. but the styles I have set in Word appear in InDesign and I don't want that. I'm trying to link a Word document to my InDesign layout so that the layout can be updated with a click of the "update link" icon if the original manuscript changes. As anything in the legal document goes into the main newspaper document at some point this can cause serious problems.I'm new to InDesign, so please bear with me. If I did a direct import I would have a list of styles and colors several miles long because no one who sends these documents to us ever uses the same style twice or names them the same. Once I have it all formatted only then do I copy it and paste it into our main legal document. ![]() I remove any hyperlinks and I trash all Word styles imported telling ID to retain the formatting (because I need the bolds and italics). I have a word.docx file that needs to be placed into InDesign. I then make sure the text is 5pt with 5pt leading, black, with black underlines. How to place word.docx file into indesign and maintain URL links. Asking the person up front to format the documents so this could happen would only result in additional load upon her and a mess on my end, culminating in phone calls from lawyers wondering where all their bolding and italics went. ![]() Due to the variety of outside documents we receive it's never possible to guarantee a direct one to one conversion of styles. This last bullet point may be the problem. I'm using Adobe CC 2017 on a Mac Pro running OS X 10.10.something and the template was created from scratch.
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