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November 22, 2019
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Indesign Is Changing Endnotes Into Soft Returns on Word Import

  • November 22, 2019
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Hi, I am having a big problem with InDesign importing endnotes from a Word document. I've got 295 endnotes in the word document and for some reasone InDesign is converting 277 of those endonotes into soft returns where the superscripted numeric text reference should be with only the last 18 endnotes showing up in the back of the InDesign document as they should. As far as as I can tell the word document's endnotes references are set up correctly. 

I import endnotes from Word into InDesgin routinely and have never run into this issue before, but this is also a lot more endnotes than I have imported, normally the documents I am formatting have around 60 or so endnotes. 

HELP! I really do not want to have to manually set up 295 endnotes lol. 

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    Barb Binder
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    Barb BinderCommunity Expert
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    November 22, 2019

    Hi Ian:

     

    Are there commonly problems like this with .docx?

    Not necessarily, but I keep it in my back pocket when struggling to import Word files into InDesign (and into Adobe FrameMaker). It usually does the trick. It's worth noting that a .docx file is actually just a .zip file. If you change the extension to .zip and unzip it, you will find a .doc file inside, along with a graphics folder and a slew of other things. When you look at it that way, it's somewhat amazing that InDesign can place .docx files at all! 

     

    Happy weekend to you,

     

    ~Barb

    ~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
    Barb Binder
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    Barb BinderCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 22, 2019

    Hi Ian:

     

    I really do not want to have to manually set up 295 endnotes lol. 

    No kidding!

     

    1. What version of InDesign, exactly?
    2. What operating system?
    3. Are you placing a Word .docx file? Does the same thing happen if save a copy of the .docx file as a .doc file and place that?

     

    ~Barb

    ~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
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      ianm77055321Author
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      November 22, 2019

      Resaving as a .doc did the trick! THANK YOU BARB!!!!!!! 

      Are there commonly problems like this with .docx? I've been doing this for about 17 years, I think this is new to me, but maybe I am forgetting. 

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