italics from Word to Affinity Publisher

[Wayward Cat Publishing]

This is a major flaw.

I write and publish novels. I write in a writing program and edit it Word. When I paste my Word doc into Affinity Publisher, all of my italics are lost. Can you imagine what a headache it is for me to scan a 400-page novel in Word for every italicized word and then find it in Affinity Publisher? I might as well go back to formatting in Word.

Edited September 13, 2021 by Wayward Cat Publishing
added novel length

[Wayward Cat Publishing]

And yet, just now, while working on a new book in Affinity, I was able to copy and paste while keeping the italics. It must be something in Word and not Affinity. If anyone knows what's going on with this, let me know. 

[William Overington]

Rather than copy and paste, would it help if you saved from Word to a file then imported the file into Affinity Publisher.

I don't have Word on this computer to try it here, all I can do is suggest the idea as a possibility.

I have just looked at the Affinity Publisher help and by searching for

import

and it appears that you can import a .docx file into Affinity Publisher but that you cannot write to a .docx file from Affinity Publisher, but it appears that you do not need to be able to write to a .docx from Affinity Publisher so no problem.

I hope that this helps.

William

 

 

 

[myclay]

I was able to import italics and bold text when going Edit>Paste Special>Rich Text Format

[Komatös]

Hello @Wayward Cat Publishing welcome to the forums.

As written before, you can place a word document w/o copy & paste! Save your Word doc as docx, Make a Masterpage with text frames. Double click on the first dokument page and choose place in the file menu. The help file will tell you more.

[Wayward Cat Publishing]

Thank you all so much! I did learn about importing as opposed to copy/paste, but completely forgot about it. I'll try that and the other suggestions.