InDesign to Word, InDesign to PowerPoint

Convert InDesign to Word, PowerPoint and Keynote.

"PDF2ID and ID2Office help save our Creative Cloud customers countless hours and allows them to focus on what really matters, their creative work. They help automate workflows and enable collaboration by making conversions between PDF, InDesign and Office seamless"

Mike Zahorik, Senior Business Development Manager, InDesign & Illustrator, Adobe


What’s New in ID2Office 2025

  • Support for InDesign 2025

    ID2Office 2025 adds support for InDesign 2025. InDesign CC 2021 through 2024 are supported as well.

  • Endnotes/Footnotes support

    InDesign endnotes and footnotes are now all processed and converted to endnotes/footnotes to Word type and the endnote/footnote data are propogated accurately to PowerPoint/Keynote

  • Accessibility tag support

    InDesign accessibility tags are now converted to Word and PowerPoint accessibility information.

  • Conversion fidelity enhancements

    Conversion fidelity enhancements have been made resolving minor conversion related issues.

What’s New in ID2Office 2024

  • Support for InDesign 2024

    ID2Office 2024 adds support for InDesign 2024. InDesign CC 2021 through 2023 are supported as well.

  • Support for latest macOS and Windows

    ID2Office 2024 supports the OS scope related changes introduced in macOS 14 and Windows 10/11.

  • Grep Style support

    Grep Style in Paragraph Styles are now processed and interpreted resulting in the correct styles being applied and exported when converting to the Office formats.

  • Additional property support

    Additional InDesign Text frame and wrap around properties are now supported when exporting to the Office formats resulting in even more accurate conversions.

  • Deprecation of InDesign CC 2019 – 2020

    InDesign CC 2019 – 2020 support has been removed simplifying deployments and reducing the installer size.

What’s New in ID2Office 2023

  • Support for InDesign 2023

    ID2Office 2023 now supports and integrates with InDesign 2023. InDesign CC 2019 through 2022 are supported as well.

  • Export to Free-flowing Microsoft Word documents

    When exporting InDesign files to Microsoft Word type, you can now specify whether a free-flowing Microsoft word document should be created (instead of the Text Frame based document type).

  • Enhanced property recognition

    Several InDesign data types are now recognized and exported to the target format type.

What’s New in ID2Office 2022

  • Support for InDesign 2022

    ID2Office 2022 now supports and integrates with InDesign 2022. InDesign CC 2015 through 2021 are supported as well.

  • Apple Silicon native

    ID2Office 2022 is a universal binary and operates natively on Apple Silicon based macOS hardware.

  • Migration to newer Windows technology set

    The Windows version of ID2Office now uses newer Windows infrastructure.

  • Export to Free-flowing Microsoft Word documents

    When exporting InDesign files to Microsoft Word type, you can now specify whether a free-flowing Microsoft word document should be created (instead of the Text Frame based document type).

What’s New in ID2Office 2021

  • Support for InDesign 2021

    ID2Office 2021 now supports and integrates with InDesign 2021. InDesign CC through 2020 are supported as well.

  • Arabic and Hebrew language support

    ID2Office adds support for Arabic and Hebrew languages. When exporting InDesign documents with Arabic/Hebrew text, the resulting Word and PowerPoint files will include Arabic/Hebrew text. Furthermore, the right-to-left layout properties and style sheet names are propagated as well.

  • Separation of images

    Images are now separated as much as possible resulting in converted files having images that can be manipulated.

  • Conversion of native InDesign vector graphics to Office vector graphics

    InDesign vector graphics such as rectangles, lines, ovals, and polygons along with the respective properties are converted to Word, PowerPoint and Keynote vector graphics.

  • InDesign form fields to Word form fields

    InDesign form field objects are now converted to Word form field objects.

  • URL and Link properties

    Hyperlinks and local links are now supported and converted to equivalent links in resulting Word/PowerPoint file.

  • Extended paragraph properties

    Paragraph properties such as borders, shading and rules are now processed, and equivalent properties are made in the converted file.

What’s New in ID2Office 2020

  • Support for InDesign 2020

    ID2Office 2020 now supports and integrates with InDesign CC 2020. InDesign CC through CC 2019 are supported as well.

  • Support for latest macOS APIs and technologies

    ID2Office 2020 fully supports macOS 10.15, including the elevated security enhancements and requirements. Additionally, the entire file management mechanism has been replaced with modern macOS filing API’s.

  • Additional InDesign property support

    General conversion enhancements and property support have been made when converting from InDesign to Word, PowerPoint and Keynote file.

What’s New in ID2Office 2019

  • Support for InDesign Creative Cloud 2019

    ID2Office 2019 now supports and integrates with InDesign CC 2019. InDesign CC through CC 2018 are supported as well.

  • JPEG image export

    You can now specify JPEG as the image type and specify the compression quality of the JPEG images; resulting in smaller file sizes.

  • Split/Span property recognition

    ID2Office 2019 includes layout enhancements where span/split column property are recognized, and the layout is preserved as accurately as possible when converting to any of the supported formats.

  • Additional InDesign property support

    Tab markers are no processed. Additionally, grouped objects are now editable in the resulting Word, PowerPoint and Keynote file.

  • Removal of InDesign CS6

    Support for InDesign CS6 has been removed.

What’s New in ID2Office 2018

  • Support for InDesign Creative Cloud 2018

    ID2Office 2018 now supports and integrates with InDesign CC 2018. InDesign CS6 through CC 2017 are supported as well.

  • Support for macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) and APFS volumes

    ID2Office 2018 has been enhanced to operate under macOS High Sierra. APFS disks and volumes are also completely supported.

  • Font name processing enhancements

    The font name matching process has been further enhanced to accurately reflect in the converted Word, PowerPoint and Keynote formats.

What’s New in ID2Office v2.2

  • Integration with InDesign CC 2017

    ID2Office has been enhanced to operate and function with InDesign CC 2017.

  • Character and Paragraph styles in Table cells

    Character and Paragraph styles which are defined in Table cells are now converted to Microsoft Word style sheets and applied appropriately

  • Paragraph Rules

    Paragraph rules are converted to Microsoft Word paragraph borders

  • Enhanced Conversions

    Conversion of InDesign files to Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Keynote formats have been enhanced in several areas providing even more accurate conversions

  • Removed support for InDesign CS5/CS5.5

    Support for InDesign CS5 and CS5.5 has been removed from ID2Office v2.2

What’s New in ID2Office v2.1

  • Integration with InDesign CC 2015

    ID2Office has been enhanced to operate and function with InDesign CC 2015

  • Tables spanning across pages/columns

    Tables that span across pages and columns are now properly replicated in the resulting Word, PowerPoint and Keynote format so that a WYSIWIG representation of the table is preserved.

  • Paragraph shading (InDesign CC 2015 only)

    InDesign CC 2015 paragraph shading property is recognized and applied when converting to Word format.

  • Images in Table Cells (InDesign CC 2015 only)

    Support has been added for InDesign CC 2015 Images in Table cells.

What was new in v2.0

  • Integration with InDesign CC and InDesign CC 2014

    ID2Office has been enhanced to operate and function with InDesign CC and InDesign CC 2014. InDesign CS5, CS5.5 and CS6 are supported as well.

  • Native 64-bit Technology

    ID2Office v2.0 is now a native 64-bit plug-in, offering performance benefits on both 64-bit Mac and Windows platforms. In particular, conversions are now about 15-20% faster than previous versions of ID2Office (this is only applicable for the InDesign CC edition of ID2Office).

  • Microsoft Word 2010-2013 native conversion

    Starting with ID2Office v2.0, Microsoft Word 2010-2013 conversion support has been included.

  • Keynote support (only for ID2Office Professional for Mac)

    ID2Office v2.0 now converts InDesign files to Apple Keynote format (only available in the Professional edition for the Mac).

  • Nested Table support

    ID2Office now accurately converts InDesign nested tables to nested Tables in Word and accurately represents them as separate Table objects in PowerPoint/Keynote.

  • Improved Text Conversion fidelity

    The conversion fidelity has been dramatically enhanced yielding even more accurate conversions. In particular text frame transformation is precisely mapped. Non-rectangular shaped text frames are now mapped correctly.

  • Improved Graphics Conversion

    Dramatic changes have been made in graphics conversion so that certain situations that resulted in non-optimal conversions have now been resolved.