Adobe InDesign CS3 - Manual (Page 125)

INDESIGN CS3
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2 Do one of the following:
• To create a new frame for the placed text, make sure that no insertion point is present and that no text or frames
are selected.
• To add text to a frame, use the Type tool to select text or place the insertion point.
• To replace the contents of an existing frame, use a selection tool to select the frame. If the frame is threaded, a
loaded text cursor appears.
If you accidentally replace a text file or graphic using this method, choose Edit > Undo Replace, and then click or
drag to create a text frame.
3 Choose File > Place.
4 Select Replace Selected Item if you want the imported file to replace the contents of a selected frame, to replace
selected text, or to be added to the text frame at the insertion point. Deselect this option to flow the imported file
into a new frame.
5 Select Show Import Options, and then double-click the file you want to import.
6 Set import options, and then click OK.
If you haven’t already designated an existing frame to receive text, the pointer becomes a loaded text icon, ready to
flow text wherever you click or drag.
If you receive an alert that the requested filter wasn’t found, you may be trying to place a file from a different word-
processing application or from an earlier version of Microsoft® Word, such as Word 6. Open the file in its original
application and save it as RTF, which preserves most formatting.
If the imported Microsoft Excel document displays red dots in cells, adjust cell size or text attributes so that overset
content becomes visible. You can also place the file as unformatted tabbed text, and then convert the tabbed text to
a table.
See also
“Flow text manually or automatically” on page 124
“Link or embed imported text files” on page 121
“Convert Word styles to InDesign styles” on page 168
“Work with missing fonts” on page 210
Microsoft Word and RTF import options
If you select Show Import Options when placing a Word file or an RTF file, you can choose from these options:
Table Of Contents Text Imports the table of contents as part of the text in the story. These entries are imported as
text only.
Index Text Imports the index as part of the text in the story. These entries are imported as text only.
Footnotes Imports Word footnotes. Footnotes and references are preserved, but renumbered based on the
document’s footnote settings.
Endnotes Imports endnotes as part of the text at the end of the story.
Use Typographer’s Quotes Ensures that imported text includes left and right quotation marks (“ ”) and
apostrophes (’) instead of straight quotation marks (" ") and apostrophes (').