Indesign Footnotes / Column Structure

Question

My document is created using two columns. Some pages have one textbox broken down into sections using text wrap with footnotes at the end, which is great. But some have multiple textboxes. Ideally, I would like them to be all linked so the footnotes correspond to each other and numbers make sense, but if I do that the footnotes add to the end of each textbox rather than at the end of the page.

Not sure if the issue is with the footnotes or the columns. I am definitely doing something wrong.

A) how can all footnotes be together at the end?

B) how can I write in two columns and some paragraphs are balanced and some fill the rest of the page.

Please, look at the attached image. I would love for the text in the orange background to stay balanced and the footnote to be at the next textbox with the other footnotes. but I can't figure out how to do that.

Laubender · Answer

Here another solution. The first footnote is with text that will not span the two columns of the text frame. The background color is done with Paragraph Shading.

How is the paragraph shading done?

IMPORTANT:

Value for Offsets Right is more than half the width of the frame: 100 mm so that the shading of paragraphs of the left column would extend to the right column. Important for the last paragraph. In the end all paragraph shadings should yield the area of a rectangle. Therefore Clip to Frame is checked as well.

German InDesign CC 2019 on Windows 10.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

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