Can only select one footnote at a time? Is there any way to choose this page or all footnotes in thi

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Can only select one footnote at a time?

Is there any way to choose this page or all footnotes in this article?

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Correct answer factoriaediciones

I dont know if this is what you need: Sometimes (almost always in old InDesign versions) you have footnote style in your file but when you bring the text from Word, the footnotes does not full apply, and you have this at the panel style: footnote+. If you want to clear and apply you can use an Script (byLFC_clear overrides__20210502_1357.jsxbin or https://github.com/grefel/clearOverrides/tree/master).

Zee Stella Aziz

Participant

I've encountered this issue too. It seems we can only select one footnote at a time. Hopefully, there's a solution to select all footnotes at once or for specific pages.

Robert at ID-Tasker

Legend

I've encountered this issue too. It seems we can only select one footnote at a time. Hopefully, there's a solution to select all footnotes at once or for specific pages.

By @Zee Stella Aziz

No, you can't select more than one Footnote at a time.

Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

What is the purpose, because you need this functionality? There might be another solution for the purpose you need it.

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Hi @dublove:

Without details (in this case, you have yet to mention why you want to select all the footnotes), we are left to guess. Most people ask us this question because they don't use styles, and don't realize that they can control them all at once using a style created and assigned through Footnote Options, so of course, that's why we provided information on how to do it.

So what is it—exactly—that you are trying to do?

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

Peter Kahrel

Community Expert

If styles are applied correctly to the footnotes and their cues, why would you want to select the footnotes on a page or a whole text?

That you can't select more than one footnotes is consistent with sections in InDesign: you can't have discontinuos selections. (I write 'consistent', not to be confused with 'desirable'.)

factoriaedicionesCorrect answer

Inspiring

I dont know if this is what you need: Sometimes (almost always in old InDesign versions) you have footnote style in your file but when you bring the text from Word, the footnotes does not full apply, and you have this at the panel style: footnote+. If you want to clear and apply you can use an Script (byLFC_clear overrides__20210502_1357.jsxbin or https://github.com/grefel/clearOverrides/tree/master).

dubloveAuthor

Legend

Thank you.
Sometimes it is necessary to clear the style overlay after selecting it.
Perhaps this is a feasible solution.

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Here's a little more detail if the goal is to format all of the notes at once...

You will want to create the new paragraph style in Type > Document Footnote Options > Numbering & Formatting. When you choose New Paragraph Style from the Paragraph Style dropdown menu, InDesign will immediately assign the new style to all the footnotes in the document. I choose to format as blue so that you could see the formatting apply to all notes immediately, but of course choose whatever formatting you like!

~Barb