Convert InDesign text including footnotes to Word

[Paulusch]

Hi,

This week for the third time a client asked me to deliver the final text of a book, from InDesign, into a Word-document.
Mostly no problem (save as PDF/X-4.0:2001 and then export to Word).
But those three book contain more then 100 footnotes (and/or endnotes).

Do you know if there is a solution for this? Or an extension?
I’ve looked but didn’t find anything at this moment.

I tried the Recosoft trial version, but it ignores all footnotes.

[Derek Cross · Accepted solution]

Have a look at Text Exporter to see if that will do what you want: 

https://www.rorohiko.com/wordpress/indesign-downloads/textexporter-4/

[Paulusch]

Hi Derek,

That's brilliant! Convert all endnotes to footnotes, export as RTF, wait a while and open the RTF-document in Word > all footnotes are there...

Thanks for the link!

[kayessell]

Actually, I got TextExporter and it failed to keep the footnotes "smart."

I have an InDesign document with 44 endnotes, each of which has text with hyperlinks. I want to get it into Word format such that the footnotes remain "smart" and the hyperlinks are still embedded.

I have tried everything. Word, Google Docs, RTF, text only, INDD markup, INDD tagged text, etc. etc. Either I get the footnotes to be "smart" or the hyperlinks to remain embedded, but not both.

[Laubender]

Hi Paulusch,

if you are interested in a roundtrip workflow:

InDesign > Word > InDesign

look into Wordsflow by EM Software:

http://emsoftware.com/products/wordsflow/

There is a 15-days trial period:

http://emsoftware.com/products/wordsflow/#freetrial

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

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