MS Word vs InDesign // Is Word better than InDesign for book formatting

[@apple_m2_delight]

to simplify it for you guys: ms word: for word processing, creating professional reports, analytics, and professional documents. creating things like books that focus on utility rather than design can be done via ms word in design: for making magazines, story books, and books with more styling on it

[@bonitamorgan7093]

Thank you Lisa. I agree with everything you said, except for your comment regarding pictures/images moving in Word. If one knows how to set it, it definitely stays in place.

[@bernardm3066]

Do you think it makes sense to use InDesign or something similar for mostly professional reports (20 - 30 pages on average) that have a lot of graphs etc? It seems that using Word with a lot of images is always a bit of a fight even for documents with standard layouts.

[@ibax013]

yes, indesign is good for both things you are saying

[@bfmjpartington5851]

What about LaTeX vs. InDesign!?

[@ychannel5951]

yes i am searching for this too.

[@alphasatari]

Y channel apparently there is not a single tutorial on internet for writing educational book that contains lot of diagrams, equations and graphs. Circuit diagrams are nightmare, if you are trying to do things professionally. You will encounter many small things that many software lacks when they are meant to be professional software.

[@davidtodd7019]

Best logic I've heard. Thanks!

[@PrettyFabulousDesigns]

Awesome - glad to hear it!

[@beself9493]

Can we import PowerPoint to InDesign? or Photoshop to InDesign?

[@PrettyFabulousDesigns]

Hi Ganesh: Not that I know of but there might be a plug in out there that is able to do this.... XO Lisa

[@numessnumess9134]

Can we use indesign to make professionnal business plan?

[@PrettyFabulousDesigns]

Hi Mouhamed: Technically, you can use InDesign to make anything but I would just stick with Google Docs or Microsoft Word to create a business plan since it doesn't need to be "pretty". Lisa

[@numessnumess9134]

@@PrettyFabulousDesigns Thank you. i was askin that because i m professionnal business plan writter and i 'm thinking to make it look more ..Extra cool ..

[@lightcfu8913]

@@numessnumess9134 If you just want to make it look more, you don't need InDesign. Scribus is more than enough for making good looking business plan. Scribus is free and open source desktop publishing software. You can try Inkscape, GIMP, and Krita as free and open source alternative to Adobe Illustrator and Photohshop for good looking art works. Also look at Darktable as alternative to Adobe Lightroom for digital photos.

[@urielmtz8828]

The portability of PSD between Indesign and Creative Cloud is amazing.

[@PrettyFabulousDesigns]

Hi Uriel: Yes, it is! XO Lisa

[@jayasaikia8092]

How to embade fonts in a PDF file?

[@PrettyFabulousDesigns]

Hi Jaya: I have no idea - I Googled this and all of the tutorials are from 20 BC. You'll want to call Adobe Tech Support at 800-833-6687 XO Lisa

[@natayquesodeleche380]

Hi Lisa. I am writing a book and I need to write side notes on the margins. I am not sure what to use. Can you please recommend ? thanks.

[@ashwanikumarsinha6837]

Make a gutter space in InDesign. Use that for notes

[@steve-hovington]

Microsoft Word is only good for your grocery list. InDesign is for professional!

lol

[@2nriter]

I have found that it's easier to make an ebook look decent in Microsoft Word. I just designed a print book in ID recently, but then went over and redid it (much more simply) in word for Kindle because it was SOOOO much easier than getting it ready for conversion / epub / mobi / etc. NOT impressed with how ID does that! Maybe I just need to learn it better - do you have any videos about ebook design?

[@AnthonyRayShane]

this is an awesome video, thanks! BTW, you're beautiful and well spoken!

[@2010akatsuki]

Thanks for the video! It really helped me

[@PrettyFabulousDesigns]

Fantastic - glad to hear that!

[@neouia777]

Hi I am historian I like make book but I have no idea about what format I should choose that means margin fonts indentation.... Can you please help me. Thanks

[@PrettyFabulousDesigns]

It really depends on where your final book output will be: Amazon Createspace, Amazon Kindle, Ingram Spark, Kobo.... each of those platforms has pre-defined margins and formatting directions that you can follow.

[@neouia777]

Pretty Fabulous Designs Thank 🤗🖐️

[@MrZuneJ]

Images would only jump around if you're an amateur in Word. Also, drop caps are possible in Word. Good video but some info needs updating.

[@PrettyFabulousDesigns]

Yes, you can kinda sorta do drop caps in Word along with the whole text wrap around images and other formatting but it never works how it's supposed to and when I close and reopen documents or maybe add another character in somewhere in the document, it offsets the entire thing. If a new video with different information about the positive benefits of Word over InDesign were to be created, I would not be the one to do it since I've never had that experience with getting Word to do those things for me.

[@Arsouphan1234]

@@PrettyFabulousDesigns Page breaks are meant to avoid these issues when you amend a content on a predecessor page. Yet i still like this video, useful content.

[@Tedbiryay]

Very nice talk. Thanks a lot Ms.Lisa.

[@PrettyFabulousDesigns]

Hi Ted: Thanks for watching and your nice words - appreciate them! XOXO Lisa

I think the comparison do not make any sense. It's like asking : Is a smartphone better than a watch for reading the hour. You can do it on both of it but one was specially created for it. At least people will know about Indesign. Great video above all !!

[@jawaidchaudhry2641]

Beautiful videos, very clearly explained. Very useful tutorials for a writer like me. Thank you Lisa.

[@SanchuBhalla]

You are nice

[@ozonelayerhole1371]

Nice explanation thank you dear

[@jan-frederikstieler1242]

Nice video but it’s like comparison apples with pineapples. Word is a word processing program and InDesign is a layout program.

[@MikaellaChiribogafueguina]

Interesting. Try Affinity Publisher :) better in all ways.

[@PabloMatsumoto]

A key factor I believe is that InDesign is a FULL PROFESSIONAL design software, is not easy to use at all unless you are familiar with Adobe (Acrobat Reader does not count). The average MS-Word user would not be able to achieve any reasonable result with InDesign unless he/she is willing to spend hours in training (in addition to a minimum artistic view).

[@PrettyFabulousDesigns]

Hi Pablo: Yes, you are correct. InDesign does have a large learning curve but it's so worth it! XO Lisa

[@cubefard264]

Indesigner for web and stuff and word for docs thats it folks Case closed

[@lightcfu8913]

Inkscape works better for web design, Scribus is for long run offset color printing documents, just like InDesign.

[@sarwathamdy]

You are the best.

[@mohdmashi9693]

Try ms publisher

[@PrettyFabulousDesigns]

Hi Mohd: MS Publisher is ONLY available for PC and quite honestly not very user friendly, outdated and just difficult and unwieldly. So I would never recommend such a product. Thanks, Lisa

[@lightcfu8913]

@@PrettyFabulousDesigns Yes, MS Publisher is outdated and poorly designed. It is difficult to output 4 color seperations for offset printing. If you need inexpensive Desktop Publishing software, please try Scribus.

[@ce2548]

😮... Lisa is absolutely gorgeous... 🤤

[@sajjad2k12]

So cute

[@neouia777]

Thank

[@Husain.Almisbah]

shittiiii sound,, irritating