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Of course, this may only be a good thing if your publication is essentially a single, long text thread. You may wish to sit down with authors and explain how the formatting works, to avoid having to tidy up their text too much at a later stage.ĭepressingly, the other reason you get asked is because some people assume there’s some magic feature that transforms a Quark document into a faithful Word version (or that you’ve managed to do it in Word in the first place). The good news is that exporting to Word from Quark brings all your Quark styles into Word.Īny independent elements such as manual footnotes, tables, standalone text boxes and images will not export.This is a huge time-saver, as your styles should be intact when you import it back again using File>Import Text It’s likely that you’ll be using fonts the author doesn’t have and these will carry through into the Word version.The first is to go to Tools>Options>Save in MS Word and embed the fonts in the document. When you import the text back into Quark, it should change them back to the fonts you defined in your Quark style sheets If that’s unsatisfactory, then edit the Word style sheets to change the fonts to standard Windows (or Mac) ones. Certain Quark-specific functions, for example thin spaces and non-breaking hyphens, aren’t recognised by Word.

However, they should be restored when you reimport into Quark, so tell your authors to ignore them They will probably export as square-shaped characters in the text.