How can I force a paragraph style without losing the italics?

This has been annoying me for ages. I work on documents in Word, using italics for book titles, etc. and then import them into indesign. I apply a paragraph style and three out of four times the bits in italics are preserved. However, the fourth time the paragraph style does not (probably due to the presence of italics) and I have to force him to do it using Alt-click. Invariably, the italics is replaced by Roman.

It happens earlier with a bunch of notes and endnotes in a book, I'm working on and means I have to go back through each of them, manually applying italics to my books and reference titles. Is it possible to force a paragraph of note/reference style without losing the text in italics?

Thanks for your suggestions,

Tom.

I'm not sure that long-term planning is needed here.

If your only concern loses italics when importing from Word, create,.

in InDesign, an italic character style. Then do a search and replace

in the document, InDesign (once you have placed the Word file)

looking for an italics, formatting and replacing with your italics

character style.

Who will save you from losing your italic formatting.

Repeat for bold, bold italic, exponent, index and nothing else

the author uses.

There are scripts that help in this process (I think one of them is

called "preptext", by Jongware).

If you want a complete solution that can be found all types of

override setting in shape and creates and applies the appropriate character

style, check out my script "create character the Styles of overrides him."

available on the script on freelancebookdesign.com tab.

Ariel

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