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I've just bought Publisher today and would like to import a Word document. Not essential but I want to learn what publisher can do).

In Affinity Publisher Help it says:-

"Adobe InDesign and Microsoft Word content can also be added to Publisher using a simple copy and paste, with the latter being importable using its DOCX file format."

It then proceeds to tell you about PDF importing but there's no further mention of Word. I can't for the life of me to get anything to go in.

What am I missing? Must I save as RTF as stated above, in which case why does Help not say so?

Thanks.

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21 hours ago, BrianSmith said:

importable using its DOCX file format.

Can you do this?

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To import a word docx create an apub document then use file use File>Place and select the word document and place in the apub document, this is the same as importing a PDF I think.

 

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4 hours ago, AlanPickup said:

this is the same as importing a PDF I think

Not really, because importing a PDF gives you an embedded or looked document with exactly 1 page available.

Importing a .docx file gives you all the text, formatting, and images in the .docx file.

It's better to create a Text Frame first, and Place the file into it, by the way, in my opinion.

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On 10/4/2019 at 10:56 AM, BrianSmith said:

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What am I missing? Must I save as RTF as stated above, in which case why does Help not say so?

When this thread was current (early beta), RTF & plain text files were the only means of importing text. That is no longer true, so if you haven't tried to directly import a .docx, go ahead and try it.

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