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However, if I use File / Place, Publisher recognizes the extension.

Per the title, sidebar Place doesn't recognize the .docx extension. The .docx extension doesn't appear in the bottom right "All Documents" of the Open panel as a selection, either. Win 11 Pro x64

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When I choose 'File > Place...' in APub 2.4.0 on Windows 10 Pro (version 22H2) I don't even see "All Documents"! The only option is "Text Files (*.txt,...)", but *.docx files are listed in the pane above.

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Posted

I get everything from soup to nuts under All Documents but *.docx.

.docx files do not show up in the directory panel at all.

However, as I said, File / Place works as it should from the Main Menu.

I might add that laptop #2 behaves exactly the same with regard to the sidebar Place icon.

1) MacBook M3 Pro 18/512 - Now my daily driver. 2) I liked it so much I added an M4 Air. Consider me a convert.

2xDell laptops on Win 11 frozen at 23H2. With 2 & 4 hours of battery life, respectively, they're already dead to me.

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29 minutes ago, Twolane said:

.docx files do not show up in the directory panel at all.

Here, on macOS Monterey, .docx or .rtf documents appear in the dialog but they are greyed out. However, it is possible to drag and drop them from the dialog into the Publisher page. 

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Posted

I suspect I'm completely wrong here but the way the Help file is worded appears to indicate that the Place Tool is for images only. I think the reference to 'Document' is in relation to PDF files which are effectively placed as an 'image' initially rather than as editable text...

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When reading the section on 'Importing text'...

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This references using File > Place even when showing the Place Tool to import text as artistic text or path text...

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Note: The same is true with .txt and .rtf files when using the Place Tool...

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Posted

Thanks for your report @Twolane!

I believe there are a few things causing confusion here.

Firstly the list of files offered in Publisher (aka not 'greyed out' on macOS, or listed as a format in the Windows Explorer dialog) will change based on your current selection within Publisher.

If you have no objects, or an object that is not a text object selected, the File > Place command will not list .docx, .txt, .rtf files and this is by design.

If you have a text object selected, the File > Place command will list .docx, .txt, .rtf files and this is by design.

However - it is not clear to me if the Place Tool should exhibit different behaviour from the File > Place command, and I can see that this is true currently on both macOS and Windows.

Based on the information from the helpfile, it does sound as though this is the behaviour described by the documentation team, though this does not necessarily mean the Place Tool behaviour is not a bug, as this may have simply been overlooked by our development team.

Therefore I'm getting this logged as a bug with our team now, as this will allow further considerations to be made regarding this Place Tool and the consistency with the File > Place command.
Should this current behaviour be expected, I'll be sure to update the thread here with any information I'm provided.

I hope this helps :)

Posted
6 minutes ago, Return said:

(one caveat though, it may paste somewhere in the doc where you cannot see it)

That’s not a major problem, since you can double-click on its entry in the Layers panel. :)

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Posted

@Dan C Thanks. I might have been doing something wrong. In any case, the .docx Place works from Menu / File / Place, so I'm good.

Dragging and dropping a .docx works, too, as expected.

 

1) MacBook M3 Pro 18/512 - Now my daily driver. 2) I liked it so much I added an M4 Air. Consider me a convert.

2xDell laptops on Win 11 frozen at 23H2. With 2 & 4 hours of battery life, respectively, they're already dead to me.

Posted

@Twolane If by "Sidebar Place Tool" you mean this 

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Then I must point out that that is for pictures/images/graphics/etc and not for text type files which is why .txt, .rtf, .docx files are greyed out.

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Posted
2 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Then I must point out that that is for pictures/images/graphics/etc and not for text type files which is why .txt, .rtf, .docx files are greyed out.

I believe @Dan C is going to confirm whether or not this is the intended behaviour (see Dan's post above)...

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Posted
1 hour ago, Old Bruce said:

Then I must point out that that is for pictures/images/graphics/etc and not for text type files which is why .txt, .rtf, .docx files are greyed out.

They are greyed out on macOS but still "draggable" to insert them with the mouse… 

See above:

 

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Posted
17 minutes ago, Oufti said:

They are greyed out on macOS but still "draggable" to insert them with the mouse… 

That’s the same as using File > Place rather than using the Place Tool…

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Posted
15 hours ago, Hangman said:
15 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

Then I must point out that that is for pictures/images/graphics/etc and not for text type files which is why .txt, .rtf, .docx files are greyed out.

I believe @Dan C is going to confirm whether or not this is the intended behaviour (see Dan's post above)...

To confirm, the issue has been assigned to a developer internally and not closed as by design - so I believe this is an oversight of the Place Tool currently and should function the same as File > Place, once this fix is implemented :)

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