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nicolregancreative
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May 6, 2019
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Separating Endnotes

  • May 6, 2019
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Hello!

I have a client who sent me an InDesign file with all the Endnotes at the end and they would like them separated by section. Is it possible to take an existing Indesign file with all the endnotes at the end of document and break them up so they are at the end of each section AND the numbering starts over at the beginning of each section?

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    nicolregancreativeAuthor
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    May 7, 2019

    Thank you for your help... I decided to just delete the pages from the original and save each section separately, there is probably an easier way to do this but that seemed to work fine.

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    LaubenderCommunity Expert
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    May 8, 2019

    Hi nicolr23068310 ,

    hm. Also note that endnotes cannot be managed over more than one document eg. using an InDesign book file with several documents. So if your customer changes his mind later in the process and decides to do endnotes book wide again and meanwhile you made changes in the individual documents you have to merge the documents to one again if you want to have live endnotes.

    Regards,
    Uwe

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    nikolas_9638
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    September 5, 2025

    Hi I found this thread while searching the internet... I have a manuscript in Word that will be transferred to InDesign. It has currently footnotes but we want to change them to endnotes at the end of the book, divided per "section" (as it is called in Word). Is there a smooth way of doing this for the person working in InDesign?

     

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    LaubenderCommunity Expert
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    May 6, 2019

    Hi nicolr23068310 ,

    define section :-)

    Endnotes can be done by document or by story.

    In case you have one big story running through all pages of your document or several stories in one section you either have to split stories or you have to merge stories.

    How should be the numbering of endnotes?

    Should it continue or should it start with every story start?

    EDIT: You already answered this. Numbering of endnotes should start with every "section".

    FWIW: A story is an entity of an text stream that can consist of one text frame ( and text path ) or more text frames ( and text paths ) that are threaded together. A section in the sense InDesign is using the term is a defined number of pages in the Pages panel.

    Regards,
    Uwe

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    nicolregancreativeAuthor
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    May 6, 2019

    Thank you for your response. So what I currently have is a story. All the text boxes are connected on one thread and the endnotes are at the end. But what I need to do is break up this continuous thread into sections with the endnotes at the end of each section. Does that make sense? Is that possible?

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    LaubenderCommunity Expert
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    May 6, 2019

    Hi nicolr23068310 ,

    yes, you have to split that one big story into several ones so that every chunk of the original story is its own story. Section for section. You best do that by using a script. Personally I'd prefer Split Story by LFC: https://www.corullon.com.br/scripts/shop/page/2/

    But you also may find this article helpful:

    https://indesignsecrets.com/how-to-split-long-story-into-smaller-pieces-unthreading-middle-story.php

    Regards,
    Uwe

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