(Most often things are fine without any graphics - it's text which needs to be examined.) But that's just an unwarranted headache presenting more problems than its worth. Yes, I could copy/paste graphics into Word as well. In general, this method doesn't account for graphics. But even if text is split into multiple frames, it's merely a matter of manually copying text in a frame, pasting, copy next fame paste, etc. The fewer text frames in InDesign the easier this method becomes.

In general, this method works well - while being more manual in nature.

I then select all and reset the font to Calibri, and color to black, and on rare occasions, unify the types sizes. Simply select and copy in InDesign, Paste into an open Wordĭocument. However, they tend to increase the complexity of things in Word in an effort to maintain layout - increasing the occurrences of 'woven' elements in Word, where a line can't be edited without trowing off things everywhere else - making for much more difficult editing in Word. These typically do a much better job of maintaining the PDF appearance in the resulting Word file.

I am aware of some online PDF to Word converters.

This method, more often than not, creates a mess which can take hours to actually clean up to a logical usable form for editing. Contents can and will drop out at times or be split into non-editable 'woven' sections of text based upon InDesign elements.

This is typically pretty horrible at maintaining any sort of edit-ability.I'm aware of 2 methods for this conversion.Įxport InDesign to PDF, open PDF in Acrobat, save as Microsoft Word I know there's no direct path from InDesign to Word. The goal is an easily edited Word file which has identical text when compared to the original InDesign file. On occasion I'll get a client request to send a PDF and Word file for the latest iteration of a piece so that someone somewhere can review the copy and edit it as necessary (Often legal reviews). I use InDesign for layout of pieces which range from 2 to 72+ pages.

Indesign to ms word