In which case, those wanting to import a scholarly book or dissertation into InDesign from a straight Word file might also take a look at this useful tutorial on importing a Word document with footnotes intact and correctly placed, and still “dynamic”. However, it may be that Word is all you have. Font-embedding from Word is usually one of the major headaches for beginners when using. InDesign has a big advantage over Microsoft Word, in that it automatically embeds fonts in the output PDF. Small donations are welcome, if you find it useful. It’s also set up with the correct margins for the print-on-demand service. It should accommodate about 55,000 words or so, in its 104 pages. Autoflow of pasted text is already fully set up for you, and footnotes are fully set up and spaced. It’s already set up with linked pages, so InDesign works as much like a normal word-processor as possible. It’s a simple 6″ x 9″ ‘Classic Book Template’, with a style modelled on vintage book design. I couldn’t find one at all that was in the classic book style, so I made one. Here’s my new free quick-start template, for self-publishing authors starting to use Adobe InDesign CS6.
