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!!!
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
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?
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)
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!
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!
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
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. 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?
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.
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?
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)
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
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?
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.
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
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
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!
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 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
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 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. 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 ru-vid.com/show-UCc0ChEC2U2iny_m1-X10Jdw XO Lisa
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 :(
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.
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
