Dear Friends,
I am trying to import a manuscript for a book into Indesign . Has anyone had any experience doing that? I can convert it to a Word document, but is there a way to do it directly and preserve the formatting?
Thanks for your help
-Walt
But the answer is really yes. As indicated by one of the page 1 search results in the web search above, “Supported file formats for InDesign CS5 - Adobe Systems”, Word (which the thread starter asked about) is a supported file format for the Place command in InDesign.
It works fine.
You could try exporting it as a PDF then opening it in Design. This should work
This is not a good idea, even if it works. It’s a valid answer to the question, but you have obviously not understood the purpose of InDesign or the circumstances that the thread starter is explaining. The thread starter has a manuscript in LibreOffice writer, that he or she wants to import into InDesign. It would be meaningless to import it as a PDF, and with a print ready PDF from Writer you might as well not use InDesign at all. The text of the PDF would not be editable in InDesign.
In InDesign you just put the cursor in the main textframe and “place” the file (ctrl+d). There is no odt filter for InDesign as far as I know, but if you save a copy of your file as Word (.doc or .docx) it should work fine by default. Fonts and styles, such as alignment are kept intact.
(I made a screen shot of the settings dialogue, but since I’m new here (I created a user just to answer this), I’m not allowed to upload the image.)