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October 18, 2018
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Use 2 different footnotes style in one page

  • October 18, 2018
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I'm trying to add two different footnotes style on a page but it seems that InDesign won't allow that!
So I have the usual numbering footnotes (1,2,3,4...) and then I have another style which is an asterisk  "*"
I tried to change the footnote style but that did not work as you can only use one style in a document!
Is there any way to bypass this?

Thanks

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    TᴀW
    TᴀW
    Legend
    October 18, 2018

    It's not really possible to have 2 sets of numbering in footnotes in InDesign.

    If you need a single footnote at the beginning of a chapter that has an asterisk, you can fake that.

    But if you need intermingled footnotes on multiple pages, there's nothing to support that.

    A screenshot of the layout would help though. Are the two footnote sets intermingled, or is one below the other?

    Ariel

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    W!SSAuthor
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    October 18, 2018

    Thanks for the reply! please find below the screenshots!

    In the first picture is the MS Word document that I am working on (in Arabic) as you can see there are the numbers footnotes and the asterisk footnote which is the author's notes, I did manage as you said to enter this manually as you suggested, by creating a blank line in the footnotes and adding the desired text, it seems to work! I think this is the only way to bypass this!
    I hope this will help others too
    Thanks

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