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September 25, 2019
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Placing Endnotes from Word in Indesign

  • September 25, 2019
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I have a hefty 300-page Word document with 1350 endnotes. I have formatted the document and applied styles to it. I created section breaks so that the endnotes' numbering re-started with every new chapter, i.e., at Chapter 2, the first footnote is "1" not "150." Now, when I go to Place the Word document in InDesign (I'm using InDesign CC 14.0.1), the endnotes do not come through correctly. Various things happen depending on my presets but no matter what I do, nothing seems to work; the endnotes never come through correctly or completely. I have 1350 notes, so this is not something I can reasonably do manually. I've been in touch with several Adobe representatives, one of which took over my computer for 2 hours, and was unable to do what I needed. But also I'm not confidant they understood what I needed. I'm now in touch with another representative who is giving me circular advice that I'm not sure will work. 

 

This seems like a simple enough request, and something I imagine many people run into when formatting books with many citations. What is the fix? Can anyone help?

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    Dave Creamer of IDEAS
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    Dave Creamer of IDEASCommunity Expert
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    September 26, 2019

    Are you chapters in separate InDesign documents or one large document?

    David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)
    Geоrge
    Geоrge
    Legend
    September 25, 2019

    Please, first of all do update to 14.0.3

    Remember, never say you can't do something in InDesign, it's always just a question of finding the right workaround to get the job done. © David Blatner
    cjg34109764
    cjg34109764Author
    Participating Frequently
    September 25, 2019
    ok i am doing that now. do you really think that will help
    Geоrge
    Geоrge
    Legend
    September 25, 2019
    Adobe done many fixes on 0-2 and 0-3 updates. If not helps then try to save docx as doc and retry to place your word-file as .doc
    Remember, never say you can't do something in InDesign, it's always just a question of finding the right workaround to get the job done. © David Blatner
    cjg34109764
    cjg34109764Author
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    September 25, 2019

    I've read in a couple of threads that InDesign simply does not support end notes. Is that the problem? Is there no work-around? I am incredulous if the answer is no. I will probably end up formatting this thing in Word if not. I can't understand how heavily cited books get made if InDesign cannot do this. Nearly every book I own has pages and pages of endnotes. This seems like something the program should be able to do, relatively easily.

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