Hi there. In this video,
we're going to look at bringing in texts into InDesign.
Look at some special features when we're bringing in from something
like Microsoft web with a top one here brings through all of formatting,
that wasn't weighed at head, Italics and bolds,
and this version here where it comes in all scrubbed and cleaned.
Both versions are useful.
Let's look at how to do those.
First of all, get and delete
our Lorem Ipsum that we had there before because we've got the copy.
Now, I'm going to bring it in,
and the easiest way is probably just to open up the file in Word and copy and paste it.
There's nothing wrong with that, but you probably don't need
me to show you how to copy and paste text.
But the other way you can do it in InDesign
without having to open up Word, so you don't have Word.
You can go with a cursor flashing here.
We can go to "File and go to place like we did images,
and then here under "O3 Newsletter",
there's one called "Article 1.
I'm going to click "Open', you can see it's bordered all through into InDesign.
One of the things that's done by default is that it's
kept the formatting that was in Word.
But say you don't want that, you don't want the bolds
and italics because there's a lot of rubbish in there.
Let's say I'm going to undo it.
Well, you'll also notice is when I "Undo' the axes not completely gone.
It's actually just ended up in my cursor and just a wade quick.
Actually, what I'm going to do is instead undoing,
I'm going to signal that takes in, just delete it.
Now, get my cursor back in there.
I'm going to go to the W key, so you can see the box raised here.
Let get back to him,
and let's go to "File "Place",
but we're going to look at a little extra,
but this is why it's quite nice to use
file-place rather than just copying and pasting from Word,
as this is the options down here.
I click on it, without opening it,
I click on "Options", and I'm going to go show input options, and click "Open".
It looks complicated, but basically what I want to do is this one,
which says remove all the styles and text from Word.
Bring it in, you'll notice that it's just plain old text,
scrubbed of all the formatting.
Codes. One of the other ways of bringing in texts,
it's the same way with a slightly different technique.
We're going to use" File", "Place" box.
If I have nothing selected,
and I delete this.
Nothing selected, click on the "Background black arrow" and go to file-place.
I nearly the same options are on,
so I'm going to make sure it says show in put options, which is great.
But when I hit "Article 1" and click "Open" now because I
don't have that textbooks are already on the page and have my cursor in it.
Something slightly different is going to happen.
I'm going to make sure, I remove styles, perfect.
But you can see my cursor is loaded down,
and what I can do is just click "Hold" and drag out a box.
We end up at the same place,
It depends on what comes natural to you.
Do you like to draw the textbox first and then heavy cursor run and place it?
Or just go to file-place and make the textbox at the exact same time.
That's often what I do,
but everyone's a little different for that one.
So that's bringing in texts from Microsoft Word,
or pretty much any old text document.
Now, let's make some columns and things. See you next video.