Delete Footnotes Separator

[SebastiaoV]

Hi guys,

I have imported a Word Document with footnotes in it. I do not like to work with Word Footnets at the end and i always copy+paste in a separated list. The Footnotes DO remain in the text thoug.

So i went to 

First, put the document in "Draft" view.

Second, go to References tab and click the "Show notes" button next to "Insert Footnote"

Third, select "Footnote separator" from the drop-down menu, and you will probably find a paragraph inserted after the line that separates the footnotes from the text (similar to the print-screens above).

Here is the picture in Word the annoying "Footnote separator" is gone

http://postimg.org/image/j8ha5mmw1/

The Footnotes Separator, does not exist in Word anymore. Nevertheless when i imported to InDesign is still there. Here is the picture.

http://postimg.org/image/w507z4izf/

Any help with this?

Thanks!

[katernya]

Have you tried Type/footnote options/layout and then untick 'rule on'

[SebastiaoV]

Hi Katernya, could you please send me a Print Screen on where is "rule on"? i have the InDesign CS 6 version in Spanish and haven't found the "rule on" equivalence in Spanish.

Here is the image

http://postimg.org/image/c1j69c6qz/

import options is on. If i don't put it on...i will not have any footnotes at all.

Cheers,

[Marvest]

You will see this menu in your ID document, not in the import options menu.

[katernya]

It is in the type menu then click on footnote options/layout and then untick 'rule on'

[SebastiaoV]

Thanks for the very good info.

I turn off the stroke. That is great news! The only drawback now is that i have to go one by one of footnote numbers and delete them. Could it be any option to delete the footnote numbers automatically?

Best,

S

[SebastiaoV]

Thanks Katernya for the very useful info!

Indeed i manage to delete the stroke.

Now how can i delete the Footnote symbols or the # special character remaing at the end of the text? As you can see in the image there is still a "#" sign that is not posible to select and delete. The problem is that this # will not allow text to reach the end of the column normally.

image 1

http://postimg.org/image/gakcnjobb/

image 2

http://postimg.org/image/cscy4wct3/

Any tips will be great!

Thanks

S

[Marvest]

The # sign is indicating an "end of story". You can see it because you have Type/Show Hidden Characters. If you choose Hide Hidden Characters you won't see them. Not sure what you mean with "cannot reach the end of the column normally". What are the number 4 and 5 that you show. Are those representing footnotes? It that's the case your text will stop before the footnotes.

[SebastiaoV]

Thanks for the fast reply Ellis.

Not sure what you mean with "cannot reach the end of the column normally".

image 1 (this is how the text should be looking right)

http://postimg.org/image/tcwrw6c4h/

but it seems there is something wrong with the footnotes becuase i cannot delete "end of story" which is pushing the text upwards.

image 2

http://postimg.org/image/f5s3c0tq3/

How do i delete those "footnote spaces"?

What are the number 4 and 5 that you show. Are those representing footnotes?

yes 4 and 5 are footnotes numbers, then i delete them but there is still a "space" not letting get the text go all the way down to the bottom of text frame column

[Marvest]

Now I get it. So it seems those are footnotes that were originally created in the document. Do you know where in the document were they created? That's where you have to delete it so they'll go away.

[SebastiaoV]

The footnotes were orginally created in a word document.

The problem is that i do like the footnotes to be imported on for the body text (as image 1 ) but not to appear at the end of every column as image 2.

image 1

http://postimg.org/image/998r49wpd/

image 2

http://postimg.org/image/hfumln0tj/

Since the footnotes are important to be read as one column i put it at the end of the article.

I am sorry if i am doing a mess of styles and so on.

[Marvest]

It seems that what you are looking for are endnotes. After doing a bit of research it seems ID doesn't have endnotes. But there's a script that you can try: http://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/footnotes.html. I haven't tried it myself but the author is a great contributor to this forum and very knowledgeable.

[SebastiaoV]

Very good Ellis, That is great info!

Thanks for the taking the taking for doing a research on this. This theme of the footnotes, endnotes and so on...is doing a mess to my time schedule, hehe...

I will try the script and let you know.

Best,

[CodysKeyboardClub]

I literally gasped when I saw that separator disappear! katernya​

[BrittBartonDC]

This totally worked for me. What a relief! Thx.

[Willi Adelberger]

You should NEVER take any formatting from imported Word documents nor expect that it works as you expect. Set up all formatting in InDesign: All styles but also the layout for footnotes. There exists no reliable linking from Word styles to InDesign styles. Ignore Word formatting at all (but you can use the same style names which have to be redefined in InDesign)

The layout definition for foot notes is in the type menu of InDesign, not in the import options.

[SebastiaoV]

Thanks for the advice Willi. I completely agree with you on "You should NEVER take any formatting from imported Word documents nor expect that it works as you expect. Set up all formatting in InDesign" Unfortunately, is not always the case. The client are 20 psychologist who write for this annual magazine and everybody use a different styling in Word. They are not particulary well known for the use of computers. Is not always that easy to convert all the imported Word Styles which sometimes are more than 20 to my InDesign preset styles for this word.

Any idea on how to deal with it? For next time, could i send them a blank template in word so the use the same styling?

Best,
S

[Guest]

I hate these kind of useless comments that fill up the boards. "You shouldn't have done that" is not constructive.

[BobLevine]

You know what's really not constructive? Throwing meaningless comments into 3 year old threads.

Another problem is assuming that someone speaks English as a first language.

Telling someone that something was done incorrectly is the first step in learning how to do it correctly.

[tburk]

So, this may be old but i figured I would try to answer it since I had so much frustration with this issue.

The way I got around this issue is to select "Show Import Options" when importing the word document into inDesign.

Once it brings up the import options window deselect "import footer" and "import endnotes".

This will remove all reference endnotes that were added in word or google docs.
And yes it is Endnotes that you are having a problem with.
For the longest time I thought it was a footer.

[WilliamLoccisano]

This fixed it for me:

1. In InDesign bring up Find/Change dialog box (Command + F)

2. See attached image and type in the same characters you see under "Find what:"

3. Click "Find Next"

4. It will find the character

5. Delete the character

6. The extra line ("footnotes separator") should go away

[PedroCanha]

Thanks WilliamLoccisano

[brianb88472472]

Select the text with the footnote separator.

Go to Type Menu

Go to Document Footnote Options

Go to Layout

Go to Rule Above

Click the Rule On box so it's off

Click OK