Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Bible

Chapter 19. Importing Microsoft Word Documents

IN THIS CHAPTER

Moving text via the Clipboard

Exporting text from Microsoft Word

Importing text into Illustrator and InDesign

Importing styles

Importing text into Dreamweaver

Whether it is copy for an InDesign layout, product descriptions for a Dreamweaver Web page, or a marketing line you want to manipulate in Illustrator, the standard workflow for most text starts in a word processor like Microsoft Word and then the text is imported into one of the CS4 applications. Although the CS4 applications handle type very well, many copywriters are more comfortable with word processors; so importing design text is common.

This chapter covers the crucial workflow step of importing text from a word processor like Word to the CS4 applications. Although several different word processors are available, Microsoft Word is the most popular word processor available today, and it is used for all the examples in this chapter.

You have essentially two methods for importing text from Microsoft Word. One method uses the Clipboard and the Cut, Copy, and Paste features. The other method exports (or saves the Word document) in a format that you can easily import into the CS4 applications. Both Illustrator and InDesign open or place Word documents saved in the Word (DOC) format, and Dreamweaver can import Word documents directly. After you import the text, you can easily move the text among any of the CS4 applications using the PDF format.

Importing a Word document into ...