


Here, we see the fixed file I could halfway fix yesterday. So, I’ll show you in what we got back into Quark with our ID2Q > Convert InDesign Document to QuarkXPress. On approximately page 388, (it’s a huge file) there is a certain text that was a text she was just copying and pasting from Word into InDesign, “Tips und Tricks…” and in the headline, that’s what she pasted in and now, and since then, now that I mentioned it, or now that we mentioned it, in this back and forth, the file didn’t work anymore.

So, these are all things that can cause problems, and some of them, if you’re copying and pasting text from InDesign or Word, you should really be aware of this and protect yourself against these problems. They’re sending more information about what can cause InDesign files to crash and our… what we have learned over the years of fixing these files, and one of them is indeed copying and pasting text from Word, PowerPoint, etc., etc., into InDesign, or even copying and pasting images, which is even worse, and I’ll put a link to a video we’ve done on that, as well.

I asked some more questions and, basically, what we get in a reply is they’ve been copying and pasting text from Microsoft Word, then they started to create an index in InDesign, and then it would crash. We have their InDesign file back into Quark, but it won’t get into InDesign. The Markzware file recovery service uses a method, which uses our file conversion tools for converting the InDesign file (the bad InDesign file) into QuarkXPress, sort of scrubbing it free of any corruption and then we get it back into InDesign with our Q2ID conversion filter, and we fix the file in this fashion. And you could see here a report on a bad file we got in and, with permission, we’re allowed to show a few pages and share the email thread on what happened and transpired with fixing this bad InDesign file. Today’s quick tip is about copy and pasting text from Word or PowerPoint into InDesign and the problems it can cause, namely, that your file can crash, and not only crash, but become corrupted. Markzware Q2ID InDesign plugin, an Adobe CS6 plugin to convert QuarkXPress, can help.Ĭopy and Paste Text from Word into InDesign Problems – transcript: Who would have ever guessed that via a seemingly simple, copy and paste of text or even images can cause problems with your InDesign files?Ĭopy and Pasting Text from Word into InDesign Problems – YouTube Copy and Paste Text from Word into InDesign The ProblemsĬopy and paste.
