MP4 | Video: AVC, 1280x720 15fps | Audio: AAC, 48 KHz, 2 Ch | Duration: 3h 31m

Skill Level: Intermediate | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + Subtitles | Size: 1.06 GB

Many designers use Microsoft Word and Adobe InDesign together, but the unique formatting and hidden markup in Word often cause issues when you bring text into InDesign. In this course, learn how to make these programs play nicely together and create beautifully formatted documents from existing text. Author and InDesign Secrets creator Anne-Marie Concepción shows how to clean up your text formatting, strip out Word styles and map them to InDesign, place Word document elements in InDesign, and fix the formatting once the text arrives. Plus, learn to repair corrupt Word files, and explore alternatives to Word such as InCopy and Google Docs.

Topics include:

Differences between InDesign and Word styles

Identifying transferable formatting attributes

Controlling text formatting when cutting and pasting

Placing Word files in InDesign

Linking to Word files for automatic updating

Working with footnotes, hyperlinks, and tracked changes

Best practices for fixing text formatting

Extracting embedded images and converting Word art

Converting local formatting to character styles

Round-tripping to InDesign RTF to clear out file corruption

Syncing Google Docs with InDesign via DocsFlow

Converting Word docs to InCopy