Andrew Crompton Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 I generally prepare lengthy text documents using Word. While doing this I am careful to create and use text-styles consistently in the hope that they will eventually come through correctly into AP. To get my text into AP, I just use copy-paste: it works ok, but with one very inconvenient feature (I assume this is by design - not a bug). For consistency across my various AP documents, I use one document as a template for creating others. This template contains all my necessary style-definitions, such as Normal, Heading, etc. These have the same names (and similar definitions) to those in the Word document I paste from. What I get, is that when I do the paste, AP creates a whole new set of styles named after the Word styles but with a 1 at the end. So I end up with Normal, Normal1, Heading, Heading1, etc. I realize I can then do a Find-Replace and change all instances of Normal1 to Normal, etc., but with many styles, this takes time. What I would like to see, therefore, is the option, when importing styled text, on a style-by-style basis to either create a new style or apply the existing AP style. (Incidentally, I had just the same problem with PagePlus and it would be nice if AP could solve it for me.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 I wish there were import options: import with styles import and map styles import without styles (keep super- and subscripts, italics and bolds) John_Cole and Krustysimplex 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Cole Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 Yes. Now that I have the live version, I wish I could import and retain styles, particularly character styles. Maybe there is a away. Have not discovered it yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Cole Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 Goal is to retain italics. Basic stuff. I can use >File> Place to import either .docx, or RTF. Importing an RTF, out of MS Word, included a bunch of junk. Much of the text replaced with Xed out boxes. The .doc file is grayed out. Under the > Text menu the only import option is > Insert Filler Text ... only. At this point it appears I will need to be careful reading through original MS Word files to manually format lost character formats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 5 hours ago, John_Cole said: The .doc file is grayed out. Unless you have a typo there, that's because Publisher doesn't support .doc. It supports .rtf and .docx and .txt files. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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