: Copy text from Word with with only specific formatting I have text in Word which has a lot of various formatting - leading, scaling, a few sizes, and some parts are italic and some part are

@Debbie163

This is how I would do it:

First create a custom character style in Word (Let's call it "MyItalic"). Then use Word's Search/Replace feature to look for text in italic and apply MyItalic style to it.

Finally, import or paste in InDesign. Make sure preferences are set to import styles. Get rid of all paragraph and character styles except MyItalic and clear all overrides. Adjust MyItalic style in InDesign in order to get rid of all unwanted specifications (font and so on), just keep italics.

Of course, bold + italic, underline + italic, and so on will all be replaced by only italic.

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