Format Novel - Anthology

[Nita Reed]

Hello,

I will be formatting an anthology (novel) using stories given to me by 5 authors in Word.  Suggestions how to import them all into the same document would be great.

[Old Bruce]

Make your styles in Publisher. Place one of the five word docs in a Publisher doc and do a find and replace on the imported styles then delete the now unused word styles, import the next word document and repeat the find and replace. Save copies frequently. Reapply the text styles frequently.

My self, I would be tempted to nuke everything and work with plain text copies of the five word documents.

[Nita Reed]

On 3/22/2021 at 12:01 PM, Old Bruce said:

Make your styles in Publisher. Place one of the five word docs in a Publisher doc and do a find and replace on the imported styles then delete the now unused word styles, import the next word document and repeat the find and replace. Save copies frequently. Reapply the text styles frequently.

My self, I would be tempted to nuke everything and work with plain text copies of the five word documents.

How do I make plain text out of word docs?

 

[Fixx]

Save as plain text? Or, copy to Mail or other app than can make text plain.

Problem with plain text is that very often there are encoding problems and you also lose all local formatting (also the needed one), which is time consuming to add to text in layout if there is a lot of it.

[carl123]

If you copy text from Word then...

Edit > Paste Without Format

...in Publisher should strip off any formatting

[Nita Reed]

You can open plain text documents?

[Fixx]

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