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November 19, 2020
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  • November 19, 2020
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How do you renumber endnotes to start at one, at the beginning of each chapter?

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Correct answer Laubender

Hi Marius,

please define what you mean by "each chapter".

Is the document built in a way that every "chapter" is one single story, a number of text frames threaded together?

 

Also see Change endnote numbering and layout in the help files where Mode is set to Restart Every Story:

https://helpx.adobe.com/in/indesign/user-guide.html/in/indesign/using/endnotes.ug.html

 

Thanks,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

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hammer0909
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Community Expert
November 19, 2020

Do you truly mean Endnotes or are you referring to Footnotes? Do the notes appear at the bottom of each page or are they aggregated at the end of the document.

LaubenderCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
November 19, 2020

Hi Marius,

please define what you mean by "each chapter".

Is the document built in a way that every "chapter" is one single story, a number of text frames threaded together?

 

Also see Change endnote numbering and layout in the help files where Mode is set to Restart Every Story:

https://helpx.adobe.com/in/indesign/user-guide.html/in/indesign/using/endnotes.ug.html

 

Thanks,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

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October 16, 2021

Hi Uwe,

 

What if you don't want to break your manuscript up into separate stories? My manuscripts come to me as a single Word file, and I program the chapter titles to start on new pages. I tried marking those pages as section starts, the endnotes still didn't restart at 1. This to me would seem the easiest option. 

First, it was a lot of work to copy/paste each chapter into a separate flow (I realize there may be easier ways to do this). 

Second, cutting the flowing text up leaves room for risk of introduced error. 

Third, if the chapters change in length due to revisions, smart reflow can cause problems, but turned off, I risk tail ends of chapters running into overset text, or leaving blank pages at the end of chapters.

Fourth, I use WordsFlow a lot, so that editors can resupply me with revised versions of the manuscript. So once I chop the text up, this function is lost to me, and it is an important part of my workflow. 

Are there other workarounds? 

Or can I ask Adobe to revise the Endnote function so you can restart the numbering at each chapter?

Also, when the endnotes get sent to the back, can't the chapter titles be included as subheads? Now I have to create those heads at the back, and type (or paste) in the chapter titles to identify which chapter the new set of endnotes refers to. 

Thanks!

Linda

Community Expert
October 18, 2021

"So once I chop the text up, this function is lost to me, and it is an important part of my workflow.

Are there other workarounds?"

 

Hi Linda,

when working with WordsFlow in this case you could change your workflow to one single Word file per chapter. You could ask the developers to revise the Endnotes feature in InDesign; for that the best place currently is InDesign UserVoice's Feature Request page:

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests

 

Also doable:

Sign in to InDesign Prerelease and speak up there at Prerelease Discussions:

 

How to Join Creative Cloud Prerelease Programs
Erin Finnegan, Oct 18, 2019

https://medium.com/adobetech/how-to-join-creative-cloud-prerelease-programs-ccecc10ae7d3

 

Direct link to join InDesign Prerelease:

https://www.adobeprerelease.com/beta/C6DFA254-C40C-4EEB-8F6D-F4AEDA2E6171

 

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )