That’s what I do–macros and save the Word file as a text file. I have a macro to clean up the word files (italic, bold, small caps, superior figures, etc.). It also takes care of double spaces, extra returns, and turns em and en dashes into the appopriate ascii characters. I run that on the author file and save as a text file.

Then I re-open the word file and run a second macro to add thin spaces between single and double quotes, thin spaced ellipses, tracking before superior figures so they don’t crash with preceding closing quotes or ascenders. To me, it’s much easier than screwing around with importing Word files. Been doing that for 20 years. As I mentioned in the final “Next Steps” video of my course, where I show my favorite resources for learning more about Word and InDesign, especially Word;-), if you go to the Editorium you’ll find TONS of macros and utilities for cleaning up Word documents in prep for flowing into ID.

The editor extraordinaire Jack Lyon is the wizard behind that site. Subscribe to his Editorium Update and/or read his blog at.

I’ve been a reader since he started publishing it in 2000. Jack’s also the author of a few tech-y books on the same topic (one book is.just. about Word macros!). His magnum opus though is Microsoft Word for Publishing Professionals.

This specific tutorial is a single movie from chapter one of the Word 2008 for Mac Essential Training course presented by lynda.com author David Rivers. Watch more at The complete course has a total duration of 8 hours and 39 minutes. Word 2008 for Mac Essential Training table of contents: Introduction 1. Getting Started with Word 2.

Creating and Saving Documents 3. Printing Documents 4. Editing and Formatting Text 5.

Formatting Paragraphs 6. Formatting Pages 7. Proofing Documents 8. Using Bullets and Numbering 9. Creating Tables and Charts 10. Using Mail Merge Manager 12. Sorting Data 13.

Working with Columns 14. Working with Graphics 15.

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Document Sharing and Collaboration 16. Working with Long Documents Conclusion.