Nicole also holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Portland State University and teaches composition, fiction-writing, and zine-making at various institutions. This article has been viewed 11, times. Although there's no way to convert a Word document to InDesign's format, you can import the contents of the Word document into an existing InDesign project. This wikiHow teaches you how to properly import the content of your Word document, including its styles and special formatting, into Adobe InDesign.
Open your InDesign project. Select your Word doc. Select Show Import Options. Click Open. Map Word styles to InDesign styles. Click OK twice. Did this summary help you? Yes No. Log in Social login does not work in incognito and private browsers.
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Leverage Machine Translation to speed up your projects. Select where to save the exported Word file and click Save. The conversion from the PDF to the Word file will take a few seconds. Replace the text in your documents with other languages Try Redokun Now. That generally solves the issue. If you have any other error, try saving the file in a different folder with the Word 97 - Document format. Let me know, in the comments, about any error you might encounter, so that I can add them to this post.
A big part of my exports of InDesign files to Word documents experience is linked to letterheads. A great guide about the topic has been written by Rebecca Creger.
Want to get better at InDesign? Sign up today for free and be the first to get notified on new tutorials and tips about InDesign. I understand and agree to the email marketing terms. As mentioned above, be sure that the styles in the Word document are correctly set to the text. In this window, you can personalize a few settings. Generally, the default settings are OK. However, you should pay special attention to these settings:.
This will import the text and emulate the Styles of the Word file in InDesign. Lately, we will then change those styles created by the import and see what happens when we import the same document again. See, the text in InDesign right has the same styles and appearance of the text in Word left. We are going to override the settings of the Paragraph Styles. As you see, near the imported Paragraph Styles there is an icon that shows that the Style has been imported, and none of the properties is overridden.
Now the text you imported from the document in Word to InDesign looks like this. InDesign tells us that there are Style Name Conflicts. See, InDesign automatically set the new characteristics to the text you imported from the Word document.
If you already created the Paragraph Styles with the same names of the Styles in Word, InDesign will override the settings of the text imported from Word. Please notice that now, in the Link menu, the link to the Word file has appeared. In the Link menu, next to the name of the Word file, InDesign shows a warning triangle that indicates that the linked file has been modified.
If we double click on the triangle, InDesign will ask to update the content. Here is the result of the update. In case you want to remove the link to the file Word in InDesign, double click above the link to the file and then select Unlink. You can import into InDesign a Word file that contains one or more tables. Instead, inline style applied to the tables in Word are kept.
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