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Smarter Workflows with InDesign and Word Preview

Smarter Workflows with InDesign and Word

With Anne-Marie Concepción Liked by 259 users
Duration: 3h 4m Skill level: Intermediate Released: 5/12/2022

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Course details

Importing a Word file into InDesign and then formatting it is a common yet often frustrating task for many designers. In this course, Anne-Marie Concepcion shows you how to avoid that frustration and use Word’s formatting to your advantage, streamlining the workflow. This fast-paced, comprehensive course covers best practices, tips, and workarounds for dealing with damaged or corrupt Word files, “crazy” text formatting, faux fonts, embedded images, Word “art,” and unwanted hyperlinks. Anne-Marie thoroughly covers the basics of importing text with and without styles, mapping styles, and common clean-up tasks. One full chapter highlights several must-have InDesign scripts designed to solve issues with Word files, and another chapter presents her favorite “Word-adjacent” workflows you may want to add, such as the WordsFlow and DocsFlow plugins and using Adobe InCopy. Anne-Marie finishes up with resources to help you keep up to date on changes to Word and InDesign workflows.

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  • Tatjana Božić Tatjana Božić

    Tatjana Božić

    Teacher of Computer sciense and informatics at music school "Isidor Bajić" Novi Sad

    5/5 December 6, 2023
    I like it, its fast, clean and useful information here
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  • Eliyahu Miller Eliyahu Miller

    Eliyahu Miller

    Owner and managing editor, JewishSelfPublishing

    5/5 February 20, 2023
    I've struggled with some of these issues when importing MS Word docs into InDesign, and these videos clearly showed me lots of great tips to deal with them in very clear, practical terms.
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  • Practice while you learn 1 exercise file
  • Test your knowledge 7 quizzes
  • Learn on the go Access on tablet and phone

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