Word Import | BUG | Diacritic characters change language and formatting
Hi together,
if a Word docx or doc document contains text in italics that are not formatted using a character style diacritic characters will import to InDesign with:
[1] Wrong language property. Instead of e.g. English (US) it will be Arabic
[2] Formatting is in "Regular" and not in "Italic"
For more details see this thread at the Adobe InDesign Forum:
italics dropped for diacritic characters when importing Word docs
davescottpeattie, Jan 26, 2023
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/italics-dropped-for-diacritic-characters-when-importing-word-docs/td-p/13531639
Also see my reply in the same thread for some sample screenshots and attached documents:
Also note that the Word Import allows the creation of several character styles with no names and no properties in the recieving document! At best this is a disturbing thing…
A workaround for that specific case was to copy/paste formatted from Word to InDesign.
Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )
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Dorothea Willerding
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Critical problem!! Especially if you work on a long document with text in different languages i.e. a load of diacritics, also in italics. Should be one of the first and foremost bugs to be fixed!!
We make do with several workarounds, but in fact I wonder why this should be necessary in such a basic feature of InDesign. -
David Peattie
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This is a critical problem for us as we produce many scholarly books with italic diacritics and we have to search and fix for this manually!