OMG THANK YOU! THAT SHIFT CLICK JUST SAVED MY LIFE! LMAO. I knew there had to be a way to add multiple pages without having to add a page for each damn continued piece of content.
What a time saver! Finally some one with a mac to explain the proper keystroke. I listened to a university professor and could not get it. You put it very succinctly. Thank you for protecting me against loaded cursor addiction.
I have been reading and rereading. Searching and watching for the last week on the easiest way to get my Word Doc uploaded to Indesign. And then I found you. Thank you so much. You are a dream!!!
Does the shift and double click method work for an InDesign document that uses columns? I am working with a thesis that will have each page split into thirds.
I followed your exact instructions and it worked but at some point in my document, the pages just go blank. But when I delete some of the previous text, it shows that those pages are actually still there, they're just not showing. What do I do?
Super helpful. Question → Is it possible to easily import text from a Word doc into an existing .indd file that already has images and other elements? Thanks!
Hi Ingrid: Wow - that sounds annoying. I'd love to help you but I've never had that happen to me and can't duplicate the problem you're getting. Have you tried to contact Adobe directly - their Tech Support is super friendly 1 (800) 833-6687 XO Lisa
when i import large amount text over into Indesign, it also imports the footnotes. And i'm just not able to get rid of the annoying footnotes, since its placed automatically during import all into a textframe, i'm not able to remove them. I can edit them, but not remove. Help!
I am trying to import text from Word into InDesign this works great. The only problem I have is the Word doc has text in tables and the tables don't seem to match when imported. Any thoughts?
Wonderful, I had to watch 5+ videos before I found yours - I could not work out how to import a large word doc and you explained it beautifully. Thank you
Ughhhh did InDesign change something? I tried it and a word document with 230 pages turned into a 7 pages document. But no words are visible other than the title page (image)
Wonderful, who would think that shift double click could save hours of laborious guesswork about placing word files!! Thank you very much. One other challenge about Word files are images that are inserted into the body text and what happens to them on placing in Indesign. I have a 95 page word doc that I need to get into ID this morning...we shall see. Also on hyperlinks and footnotes..so many headaches.
Thank you so much for the clarity and professionalism in your VOICE. So many online tutorial-providers often forget there is a listener and start having conversations with themselves UNDER THEIR BREATH. You are precise, concise AND you know your topic COLD. So so refreshing and welcoming when you are on the fly and need to know or in my case . . . I'm 70 . . . need to REMEMBER how to do something I did maybe three or eight years ago. I go back to Pagemaker. Indeed . . . it's that damned shift key. Thank you so so much. Charlie Grubb
Hi Lisa, I'm GD Harun from Bangladesh. I like your tutorials so much, thank you for your very brilliant & informative tutorial, very glad to you. Please, can you make a tutorial for a 16-page plate setup to plate output for publishing a book in InDesign? Actually, I have a 500 pages book for output. If you have, please, I'm very glade to you if you send me the link.
Every time I 'place' text, the box is empty, but has a little red box at bottom right - I guess this telling me the text is in there...how do I solve it, so I can see the text?
Hi Glenn: Without seeing your screen I really can't troubleshoot this. I would suggest contacting Adobe Technical Support - they'll remote into your computer and help you out! XOXO Lisa
If it's multipage shift and click on the first page (it took me a whole week to figure this out haha and unfortunately adobe technical support wont help)
HI. Really great video. When I try to import, having set up the file, it seems as if only one page is being pulled across instread of the 115 I want to import. I hold the shift bar on my MacBook but the double click doesn't seem to be working for me?
Many thanks for this! It has saved me a lot of time! It is however not working on all the word documents I want to transfer to indesign. Only 7 out of 253 pages are created form this particular word file leaving me with the text over set symbol at the end of the 7th page. Any idea on what could be wrong with the word document?
Hi Mig: Sorry to hear it stalled on you. I usually find this is because some weird or fancy formatting attempts were made to the Word document. I do not have a fix for it. I have tried copying and pasting the entire word document into a plain text editor but then you'll lose all your formatting. I hate to say it but you'll just have to copy and paste in chunks to get it all into InDesign. Or you can contact Adobe support - they might have a fix for you. Good luck! XO Lisa
I'm writing this comment right after I tried the second method and I must say that it works perfectly! I tried it in my Indesign CS6 version. Thank you so much!
Hi Junal: Great question - I don't know. I doubt it but there might be a setting that does that. Did you check out Eon's channel - he has way more text formatting videos on his. XO Lisa
How to remove that white background of the texts after you place sa documents in indesign. If you drag those text outside the paper you notice there is white bg of the texts
some words just got fused/ combined together after using this method .. any solution please ? like this : InthepopulationofTransylvaniatherearefourdistinctnationalities not all them but quite few
hello, I tried changing the margins from my word files. it fixed a lot of word mixing. However, I still got a few words mixed here and there. so I need to go line by line and press space to separate them. At this point I'm frustrated and please give me a fix :(
I take my hat off to you. Thank you so much for this video. You just saved me so much time. I was literally just manually selecting add page and drag. Much love.
Thank you. I'm just starting to learn this. Very cool. I get scanned documents at work and they look horrible. I like to clean them up so I use the recognize text option in Acrobat DC. A lot of times it copies the font but it's pixilated or skewed somehow I'm wondering if InDesign has a better feature or process to clean it up? Please let me know. Thank you.
I have a template that I did this to. The template already has the fill text in it. Is there a quick way to replace this text with the placed document?
I have been using InDesign for years and literally did not know I could make it automatically place the exact number of pages. My editors make a lot of text changes and its so much back and forth and I am CONSTANTLY going back and forth linking and relinking and reformatting documents. This is going to shave weeks off my work hours in a year.
Thank you. I've been tasked with reformatting a 50 page e-book that's created in word and I would much rather do it in indesign. This was very helpful.
Hi Wrenzy: It probably depends on what font you're using BUT I am not an expert at special characters but you can call Adobe Tech Support and they will help you out! 800-833-6687 Good luck! XO Lisa
Hi. Your tutorial is very useful and clear. Do I have to install any plug-in to transfer avanced logic and math symbols from word to indesign? Thank you.
Hi Federico: Thanks for watching + commenting. I have no idea about logic + math symbols since I've never used them in either program. Nor do I ever use plugins so I'm not the right person for this question but you can easily just try it out and see if it works or not or contact Adobe Technical support for help. XOXO Lisa
Hi Karen: That's a good question - Not that I know of. I've never worked with Children's books that have extensive layouts but Euan Mitchell focuses more on that subject and might have a video on his channel over at ua-cam.com/channels/c0ChEC2U2iny_m1-X10Jdw.html XO Lisa
Thank yoy very much. I WOULD LIKE TO ASK YOU: HOW I CAN KEEP SUPERSCRIPT STYLE, ITALICS STYLE, BOLD STYLE FROM WORD TO INDESIGN. Thank yoy very much and sorry for my english
Hi Kristen: I'm not able to troubleshoot your tech issues without knowing your computer, what version of word you're using, if there are special characters or formatting in your word document, etc. If you have Adobe Creative Cloud, you can contact their techical support. Good luck XO Lisa
Try them both, if either one doesnt work try the other. Press shift and it will create page using auto-flow method. You need to see a cursor icon with small arrow going up and down which represents autoflow. PS she manually creating textboxes, thats not needed. That what the margins are for. Simply click and the textframe will be created according to those margins. Unless you want a different size. But you can always adjust later.
Thanks for the explainer. The problem is that InDesign seems to be so buggy with it. It didn't work for a few times...then it did...then it didn't again.
Hi Cartoon: That's a good question - with the footnotes and endnotes and such? I have no idea since I've never written a thesis paper. Even in college, I opted to take the 8-hour exam over writing a thesis paper so I'm not sure. XO Lisa
OMG THANK YOU! THAT SHIFT CLICK JUST SAVED MY LIFE! LMAO. I knew there had to be a way to add multiple pages without having to add a page for each damn continued piece of content.
Wow! This is outstanding! Just converted a 110 page docx to iD in seconds. The tip at 4:26, the place + Shft is a lifesaver.
I second that! Great tip!!!
What if the Word has images on it, would it be still be there in the indesign?
What a time saver! Finally some one with a mac to explain the proper keystroke. I listened to a university professor and could not get it. You put it very succinctly. Thank you for protecting me against loaded cursor addiction.
I have been reading and rereading. Searching and watching for the last week on the easiest way to get my Word Doc uploaded to Indesign. And then I found you. Thank you so much. You are a dream!!!
That's awesome. I know I will need this soon so it is good to know. Thanks. And thank you for being brief.
Hi, I need help. I have black boxes appear on top of the imported texts; I don't know why it's like this.
Hi Nansy: Sorry to hear this is happening. That sucks. Did you try reaching out to Adobe Support? XO Lisa
Does the shift and double click method work for an InDesign document that uses columns? I am working with a thesis that will have each page split into thirds.
Hi Liam: I have no idea but I don’t see why it wouldn’t. XOXO Lisa
I followed your exact instructions and it worked but at some point in my document, the pages just go blank. But when I delete some of the previous text, it shows that those pages are actually still there, they're just not showing. What do I do?
Hi Kyle: Sorry to hear that happened - this is definitely something to explore with Adobe support directly. Good luck. XO Lisa
Thank you! I have been looking for a solution to this forever.
Hi - So glad this video helped you!
Super helpful.
Question → Is it possible to easily import text from a Word doc into an existing .indd file that already has images and other elements? Thanks!
idk if youre going to know the answer to this, but its putting a new page break at every line break and I dont know how to fix it!
Hi Ingrid: Wow - that sounds annoying. I'd love to help you but I've never had that happen to me and can't duplicate the problem you're getting. Have you tried to contact Adobe directly - their Tech Support is super friendly 1 (800) 833-6687 XO Lisa
You are so beautiful and the way you explain is awesome. Love from Pakistan
Hi Arsh: Aww - thanks. You're so nice - I appreciate your friendly comment. XO Lisa
Did your import bring all the formatting across with the styles?
when i import large amount text over into Indesign, it also imports the footnotes. And i'm just not able to get rid of the annoying footnotes, since its placed automatically during import all into a textframe, i'm not able to remove them. I can edit them, but not remove. Help!
Think you very much, let me kill this 200 page book now
Yes - you can do it! XO Lisa
Your tutorial video on importing the Word Doc to Indesign has been very useful to us. Thank you so much.😃
I am trying to import text from Word into InDesign this works great. The only problem I have is the Word doc has text in tables and the tables don't seem to match when imported. Any thoughts?
Hi Kimberly: You cannot import tables from Word to InDesign. Sorry - it's just not possible in an easy way. XO Lisa
Wonderful, I had to watch 5+ videos before I found yours - I could not work out how to import a large word doc and you explained it beautifully. Thank you
Hi Marjolyn: Awesome - so glad to hear that! XOXO Lisa
What is the butter import the text from Word or type it directly in indesign 🤔🙄 Thanks ✨
Ughhhh did InDesign change something? I tried it and a word document with 230 pages turned into a 7 pages document. But no words are visible other than the title page (image)
Wonderful, who would think that shift double click could save hours of laborious guesswork about placing word files!! Thank you very much. One other challenge about Word files are images that are inserted into the body text and what happens to them on placing in Indesign. I have a 95 page word doc that I need to get into ID this morning...we shall see. Also on hyperlinks and footnotes..so many headaches.
Thank you so much for the clarity and professionalism in your VOICE. So many online tutorial-providers often forget there is a listener and start having conversations with themselves UNDER THEIR BREATH. You are precise, concise AND you know your topic COLD. So so refreshing and welcoming when you are on the fly and need to know or in my case . . . I'm 70 . . . need to REMEMBER how to do something I did maybe three or eight years ago. I go back to Pagemaker. Indeed . . . it's that damned shift key. Thank you so so much. Charlie Grubb
Your welcome, Charlie. Glad it helps
Hi Lisa, I'm GD Harun from Bangladesh. I like your tutorials so much, thank you for your very brilliant & informative tutorial, very glad to you. Please, can you make a tutorial for a 16-page plate setup to plate output for publishing a book in InDesign? Actually, I have a 500 pages book for output. If you have, please, I'm very glade to you if you send me the link.
you have your Height at 11.5 ... :)
Ha - oops! XO Lisa
Every time I 'place' text, the box is empty, but has a little red box at bottom right - I guess this telling me the text is in there...how do I solve it, so I can see the text?
Hi Glenn: Without seeing your screen I really can't troubleshoot this. I would suggest contacting Adobe Technical Support - they'll remote into your computer and help you out! XOXO Lisa
If it's multipage shift and click on the first page (it took me a whole week to figure this out haha and unfortunately adobe technical support wont help)
HI. Really great video. When I try to import, having set up the file, it seems as if only one page is being pulled across instread of the 115 I want to import. I hold the shift bar on my MacBook but the double click doesn't seem to be working for me?
lol. So.....like just hold down when you place. AWESOME! this really saved my bacon! AND A LOT OF TIME!
I love this lady. You just saved a life. Thank you sooooooooooooooooo much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUU
Super helpful, you're the best.
Glad to hear it!
You're the best. Helped me a lot. Thank you.
Thanks!
Very helpful! InDesign beginner here, trying to work with a massive Word doc is input. I subscribed. Thanks!
Very helpful. Thanks a lot
Hi DataClashers: Glad it was helpful! XO Lisa
Very well explained Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
AMAZINGLY HELPFUL! Thank you Lisa!
how to enable rich text format in indesign
what about microft word file with images...
For real tho
How to change「‘」「’」「“」「“」from full-width character to half-width character ?
Many thanks for this! It has saved me a lot of time! It is however not working on all the word documents I want to transfer to indesign. Only 7 out of 253 pages are created form this particular word file leaving me with the text over set symbol at the end of the 7th page. Any idea on what could be wrong with the word document?
Hi Mig: Sorry to hear it stalled on you. I usually find this is because some weird or fancy formatting attempts were made to the Word document. I do not have a fix for it. I have tried copying and pasting the entire word document into a plain text editor but then you'll lose all your formatting. I hate to say it but you'll just have to copy and paste in chunks to get it all into InDesign. Or you can contact Adobe support - they might have a fix for you. Good luck! XO Lisa
wow very nice i like it and realy explained.
Lisa.... you're a STAR!! Thank you for sharing that... saved me so much time!! X
Glad it was helpful!
So helpful and straight to the point! Thank you!
Hi M M: Thanks so much - glad you liked it! Thanks, Lisa
I'm writing this comment right after I tried the second method and I must say that it works perfectly! I tried it in my Indesign CS6 version. Thank you so much!
Does this import footnotes too?
Hi Junal: Great question - I don't know. I doubt it but there might be a setting that does that. Did you check out Eon's channel - he has way more text formatting videos on his. XO Lisa
How to remove that white background of the texts after you place sa documents in indesign. If you drag those text outside the paper you notice there is white bg of the texts
some words just got fused/ combined together after using this method .. any solution please ?
like this : InthepopulationofTransylvaniatherearefourdistinctnationalities
not all them but quite few
Hi Ali: It could be your font or your Word styles or themes. XO Lisa
hello, I tried changing the margins from my word files. it fixed a lot of word mixing. However, I still got a few words mixed here and there. so I need to go line by line and press space to separate them. At this point I'm frustrated and please give me a fix :(
Thanks so much! All I needed to do was press shift, you've saved me a ton of time.
this video CHANGED MY LIFE! thank you :)
Oh THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I do this proffesionally and have always spent so much time with the formating and mistakes...
Hooray, Andrea: so glad it was helpful. XO Lisa
This is just what I needed! All my searching found only how to place one page documents. Thanks, Lisa!
Exactly what I was looking for. ALL OF THIS!!!
Hello, love the video! If my file has footnotes, will Indesign recognize them?
4:00 How to import Word Doc many pages, ex. 500 pages or longer
Madam,
very very thanks..................................
Thanks a lot.......
Thank you, so much
Hi Dior: Always welcome! XO Lisa
You looks so beautiful and gorgeous because of your beauty your videos looks very impressive.
I take my hat off to you. Thank you so much for this video. You just saved me so much time. I was literally just manually selecting add page and drag. Much love.
Hi Carlos: Wow, manually adding pages sounds painful - so glad you found this video! XO Lisa
Thank you. I'm just starting to learn this. Very cool. I get scanned documents at work and they look horrible. I like to clean them up so I use the recognize text option in Acrobat DC. A lot of times it copies the font but it's pixilated or skewed somehow I'm wondering if InDesign has a better feature or process to clean it up? Please let me know. Thank you.
Thank youuu I forgot about the shift thing & I couldn't find it anywhere on google
Quick and simple, thank you for the help!
I have a template that I did this to. The template already has the fill text in it. Is there a quick way to replace this text with the placed document?
You're fabulous! Thank you for this excellent tutorial.
I have been using InDesign for years and literally did not know I could make it automatically place the exact number of pages. My editors make a lot of text changes and its so much back and forth and I am CONSTANTLY going back and forth linking and relinking and reformatting documents. This is going to shave weeks off my work hours in a year.
Hi Julia: So glad it was helpful! XO Lisa
Thank you. I've been tasked with reformatting a 50 page e-book that's created in word and I would much rather do it in indesign. This was very helpful.
Hi Miguel: Wonderful - Glad it was helpful! XO Lisa
Love your tutorials...and getting to the point! :)
SHIFT! ❤❤❤
Yes!! XO Lisa
Perfect Video! What camera are you using its super HD ?
But how about the italics and bold word that i want to retain? It works but not for special words that i want to emphasize? How can i fix it?
Hi Wrenzy: It probably depends on what font you're using BUT I am not an expert at special characters but you can call Adobe Tech Support and they will help you out! 800-833-6687 Good luck! XO Lisa
I wonder if I can import text from a Google Doc this way? There is only one way to find out!
Hi Sarah: Not that I know of. You could also just download your Google Doc as a MS Word file and then upload it from there. XO Lisa
Finally 👍 I got it ❤️
Hi. Your tutorial is very useful and clear. Do I have to install any plug-in to transfer avanced logic and math symbols from word to indesign? Thank you.
Hi Federico: Thanks for watching + commenting. I have no idea about logic + math symbols since I've never used them in either program. Nor do I ever use plugins so I'm not the right person for this question but you can easily just try it out and see if it works or not or contact Adobe Technical support for help. XOXO Lisa
@@PrettyFabulousDesigns Thank you so much.
thx
Is Import from Microsoft Publisher possible?
Thankyou!!! You legit just saved me hours of work on a short deadline!!!
thanks senorita,,,, u deserve my like
OMAIGADD THANKYOU THIS SAVE ME ALOTTTT!!!
Hi, hoping you may know how to import just small amounts of the text per page, as I have a children's book, I am working on?
Hi Karen: That's a good question - Not that I know of. I've never worked with Children's books that have extensive layouts but Euan Mitchell focuses more on that subject and might have a video on his channel over at ua-cam.com/channels/c0ChEC2U2iny_m1-X10Jdw.html XO Lisa
@@PrettyFabulousDesigns Thanks! I think I have figured it out, each page is unique so it is one at a time, but its done. Now to prepare for printing!
You have saved my job o.o Thank you so much
Glad I could help!
you just made my life a little easier. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So happy to hear that DrewZilla! XO Lisa
Life saving lol thank you!!
This saved me a lot of time thank you very much Lisa.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much! This has to be in the Top 3 of the most useful videos I’ve ever come across.
Hooray Derrion: So glad you found it useful! XO Lisa
Thank yoy very much.
I WOULD LIKE TO ASK YOU: HOW I CAN KEEP SUPERSCRIPT STYLE, ITALICS STYLE, BOLD STYLE FROM WORD TO INDESIGN.
Thank yoy very much and sorry for my english
I am trying to import a 100 page word document, but it's only inserting the first page. I'm pressing alt and changing the cursor. Any advice?
Hi Kristen: I'm not able to troubleshoot your tech issues without knowing your computer, what version of word you're using, if there are special characters or formatting in your word document, etc. If you have Adobe Creative Cloud, you can contact their techical support. Good luck XO Lisa
Try them both, if either one doesnt work try the other. Press shift and it will create page using auto-flow method. You need to see a cursor icon with small arrow going up and down which represents autoflow. PS she manually creating textboxes, thats not needed. That what the margins are for. Simply click and the textframe will be created according to those margins. Unless you want a different size. But you can always adjust later.
Pretty Fabulous thanks
Super helpful, thank you! :)
Thank you soooo much ❤ for help me to my exam 🥺🙏
Thanks for the explainer. The problem is that InDesign seems to be so buggy with it. It didn't work for a few times...then it did...then it didn't again.
Είσαι υπέροχη!!!
Thank You very much. I have been looking for this.
Hello
How can i do from indisine to word please
U r amazing!!
Can I ask, why whenever I import the file nothing appears in InDesign? I did everything you did, but no text appears.
Thank You very much!
thank you so much
thanks thanks thanks thanks!
So helpful. Thank you.
could you show how to do for thesis paper or book? thanks
Hi Cartoon: That's a good question - with the footnotes and endnotes and such? I have no idea since I've never written a thesis paper. Even in college, I opted to take the 8-hour exam over writing a thesis paper so I'm not sure. XO Lisa