Quote Originally Posted by Gamerprinter View Post
What I'd like to see Xara be able to do is prepare a single page, say for two column layout, then open a multi-page Word document, select all the text, copy to clipboard, then paste that into the prepared Xara double column layout and paste the text into the column placeholder, and have Xara automatically generate all the necessary duplicates of the first page, until all the pasted text is used. Thus I can select 90,000 words from a word document and automatically create a 60 page document in Xara.....
Xara as a DTP needs to be able to do that at least.
It can do exactly that already. Several ways.

1) Create your basic page text frame layout. Be it one frame, or multiple linked frames etc.
2) Right click on the overflow indicator of the text frame and select 'create pages automatically'

Now when you paste text into the frame or columns, it will create as many pages copying the page / frame layout of this page, as required.

You can see this working by just opening the blank 'A4 1-column' document from the File > new menu, and pasting into that. You'll get a multi-page document with all the text in it. Select the column control on the Text InfoBar and you can make it all 2 or 3 columns with a click. Oh and this also shows auto-page numbers working as you asked for. Use the 'Insert > Page number...' option to insert an automatic page number into any text story - or as a floating page number to appear anywhere on the page. With the latest release you can also choose the start number for this.

You can import the text from Word several ways. Either just select-all in Word, and paste into Xara. You'll be prompted to import text one of several ways. Choose Rich Text Format as that retains all the Style information including inline graphics etc. Or select 'unformatted text' to have it pasted into whatever text Style you use in Xara (but not graphics come across)

Or just open the Word document (or RTF file) directly into Xara as a separate document (short cut is to drag 'n' drop the .doc / docx file into the Xara title bar to do this). Now you have the Word document open you can copy / paste text between Xara docs as necessary. For more complex Word documents with tables and multiple separate text flows or floating text frames etc, the latter method is best as you can select exactly what you want to copy and paste. or of course just copy / paste the right parts of the