Import style sheets along with a Word doc

If you use Microsoft Word, either you know how to use your style sheets, or you just type away and style sheets (some that include settings such as “Next Style”) are automatically applied for you (which I find really annoying).

When you place a Word doc into InDesign, the default is set so Word’s style sheets are added to your Paragraph Styles panel. You’ll know they’re there because the panel displays old-fashioned floppy disk icons next to each imported style sheet name, as shown below.

Imported style sheets in InDesign

If a style sheet in Word is named exactly the same as a style sheet in your InDesign file, InDesign’s style takes over. For instance, the panel you see above included a style sheet named “Heading 1,” so when the Word style sheet was imported along with the text, my InDesign style sheet applied its settings to every paragraph tagged with “Heading 1.” This is great for me. :-)