I’m using Quark 7 on Mac OSX.

So far I’ve only been able to export a ‘story’ rather than the whole document using ‘Save Text’. Any ideas? It’s going to save me a whole lot of copying and pasting!

The important thing is that your paragraph, which contains a tab or indent (and I’m assuming it’s something simple like a numbered list or bullet points), has its own style. When you export the text to MS Word, the style will carry over.

If the result looks garbled in Word, you can always quickly edit the Word style sheets to improve the appearance.

In terms of putting the text back into Quark, as I outlined in my post about importing Word files, you often encounter problem with tab spacing. The solution I’ve found is to alter your Word styles so that the indent and tab sizes match exactly the corresponding styles in QuarkXPress (with which you’re replacing the Word styles). Therefore, if your “body text” Quark style has a 5mm indent, put a 5mm indent into your “body text” Word style.

I received this link in response to someone in our office wanting to make changes as a word document to an employee handbook that, in Quark, is 76 pages long, all linked type. But as pages of headings, subheads, bulleted points, etc. anything with a tab is set at what word sees as a pre-set tab indention, such as 1/2″ each. Some columns set with a mere 1 pt. indention, or a series of indentions, now take multiple lines of text to try and set what was in a small six inch column in Quark. Am I really missing something in the options to save the text from Quark and then placing it into word? Ed

Exporting to RTF and opening up in Word does preserve styles, but only sort of–a lot of style variants appear, which would need some work to sort out.

However, if you save a text string in Quark as RTF and reimport into a blank Quark document, unfortunately all your styles disappear.