Nita Reed Posted March 22, 2021 Share Posted March 22, 2021 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted March 22, 2021 Share Posted March 22, 2021 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. Rick G and Nita Reed 2 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nita Reed Posted May 17, 2021 Author Share Posted May 17, 2021 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 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. Nita Reed 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 If you copy text from Word then... Edit > Paste Without Format ...in Publisher should strip off any formatting Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nita Reed Posted May 17, 2021 Author Share Posted May 17, 2021 You can open plain text documents? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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