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EricaSholycow
Inspiring
April 4, 2024
Question

EndNote plug-in for Word compatibility with Indesign

  • April 4, 2024
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A project has come across my desk where the EndNote plug-in for Word has been used. When importing the file into Indesign the endnotes are all in-tact but they are not dynamic and they don't have hyperlinks between the entries. ls there anyway to keep that dynamic link or is EndNote functionality just not compatible with Indesign? TIA
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James Gifford—NitroPress
James Gifford—NitroPress
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April 4, 2024

There are a number of add-ins that speed creation and organization of end notes, for academic users. My experience with them is that while they streamline the keyboard-to-page/PDF organization and formatting, usually for journal manuscripts or simple book pages, they are less than friendly to any kind of format export or import by any other app, including ID.

 

Unless you can export the Word doc with the end notes in native app format, the odds of a successful ID import are slim. I would try saving the doc as RTF and see what an ID import makes of it.

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    EricaSholycowAuthor
    Inspiring
    April 9, 2024

    I have a RTF of the document and it imports in the same way as the .docx document, in that the Endnotes are all static.

    Robert at ID-Tasker
    Robert at ID-Tasker
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    April 9, 2024

    I appreciate the assistance  and understand it's quite difficult without it, but I can't show a screenshot unfortuantely.


    @EricaSholycow 

     

    If you work on a PC - I've already created a dedicated rule for my tool to convert "plain text" to Footnotes - just 4x ready made Tasks to execute:

     

    BEFORE:

     

    AFTER:

     

     

    And a video - with a different approach - same result:

     

    Robert at ID-Tasker
    Robert at ID-Tasker
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    April 4, 2024

    What "EndNote plug-in" are you talking about?

     

    WORD can handle Endnotes on its own:

     

    Can you share your WORD and INDD documents?

    Doesn't have to be in full - part of it will be sufficient.

    And you can share it on priv if you prefer - click my name and you'll have MESSAGE button.

     

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