Importing Word document

[M J Maguire]

 

Hi I wondered if anyone could help with an import issue?

I’m placing a Word document (.docx) into Affinity and it won’t allow me to use the Italics or Bold functions on the text - it just remains greyed-out - and I can’t find a work around. The font I am using in Word in Garamond. The project has a considerable number of pages and quotes in italics and bold headings, so it’s a bit of a problem. Any help greatly appreciated  - Sorry forgot to add working on Mac

Thank you

Edited December 6, 2024 by M J Maguire

[PaulEC]

Is this your own word document? If not, do you have exactly the same version of Garamond installed, including the italics and bold versions?

[DuncanL]

Do you have a bold and italic (and bold-italic) version of Garamond installed?  Affinity will not make "fake" bold or italic fonts that don't exist; unlike Word.

[M J Maguire]

Hello Paul

Thank you for your reply. The Garamond  font is the one I placed with Word into a Text Box. I can see Garamond listed but not sure  it's just taken this from Word, or Affinity has Garamond in its font list.

[M J Maguire]

Ahh maybe I need to install a Garamond font into Affinity?

I tried to Iuse the +a text style:  bold_italics, but this is not working either

[M J Maguire]

Can I install new fonts into Affinity?

 

[DuncanL]

In the font family combo box,  what do you see for Garamond?



For example on my system; Times New Roman is installed in 4 variants (Regular, Bold, Bold Italic and Italic) - others such as TokyoSoft exist only in one style; so I cannot apply bold or italic formatting to that font in Affinity.

(Other fonts blurred purely to make it dearer which bit's we're looking at!)

[DuncanL]

7 minutes ago, M J Maguire said:

Can I install new fonts into Affinity?

Adding fonts is a feature of the OS - Affinity will use whatever fonts are available to the OS.

[M J Maguire]

 

It is just showing regular, so therefore I will need to download the font with all variants 

Thank you for your help

 

[DuncanL]

You're welcome.