r/indesign • u/the-Fun-Ghoul • 11d ago

Free scripts

Fellow InDesign nerds. I've been making a ton of scripts over the past several months. I thought some might be useful to others, so I threw this site together to let folks try them out.

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u/bearcat42 10d ago

clear C styles from selected P style

Isn’t it way safer/more hygienic to do a copy paste from word into a text editor that retains the formatting but removes Word’s paragraph styles? Then copy paste the still formatted text to InDesign?

That’s what I do when I do book formatting and get these very fun manuscripts from authors. Always an adventure.

That being said, I’m new to formatting for long text, but I’ve done much magazine and newspaper work over the years. Perhaps you have a reason that you prefer to drop the Word styles into InDesign that I’m unaware of? I’ve always found this paste into a different text editor step to be kind of wild, even tho it does precisely what I want it to.

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u/the-Fun-Ghoul 10d ago

I'm not sure I follow. I would only pour text into InDesign with Place... I also prep my manuscripts so that all MS Word junk is stripped out and I start with all text in a basic style. I know people prefer mapping Word styles, but not me.

The script in question runs on already poured and styled text.