Importing (Place function) 700 MSWord...

Hello,



I have a book written in MSWord 2003 with more than 700 pages with with text boxes %26amp; tables. I tried the Place function and InDesign only gave me 78 pages and the last 3 pages of that 78 pages were blank. At the last page there is a small red box indicating there is more pages(?), I create a new page with type tool box and then clicked on the red box, held the Shift key down (to automatically repaginate) then clicked on the newly created page ... problem it gives me 3 blank pages. Fiddled with Import options and all the results are the same.



I also tried copying everything from the MSWord file and pasting it into InDesign. It pasted all the text but there is no text box and all the formatting is lost. I do not want to re-do all the text boxes and re-format the text to their original state.



Is there an option somewhere I haven't seen that I can turn on or off so that when using the Place function all the pages will be there?
Importing (Place function) 700 MSWord...
It sounds like there's something in the line that is too wide for the page and you've got a rule of some sort preventing InDesign from breaking the line. This often happens with indiscriminate use of ''no break,'' but I don't think Word has that function, and I doubt that you've applied it to text you can't see, so perhaps it's a combination of no hyphenation allowed and non-breaking spaces between words. It might also be some sort of inline image or even a table that can't break.



You can get a clue by putting your cursor near the last place that you can see text, then opening the story in the story editor (Ctrl + Y). You should see a red line indicating where the overset begins.



Peter
Importing (Place function) 700 MSWord...
The red box is the overset indicator, meaning there's more text but

Indesign can't display it for some reason. Did you set up your Word file

with the same margins as your Indesign file? I've seen Word files come

in with, for instance, a 5'' indent in a 4'' text frame. Indesign will

also get tripped up by a table row deeper than the text frame (ID won't

split rows the way Word will). There are some other possibilities, but

the first thing to try is just to make the frame bigger and see if

something pops in.



Don't expect a perfect re-creation of your Word doc. They're very

different programs, and ID is set up for importing text from Word, not

complicated layouts.



--

Kenneth Benson

Pegasus Type, Inc.

www.pegtype.com