Endnotes refuse to reorder

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I accidentally deleted an endnote, no 67, in a book I'm working on. I have tried to reinsert it on the original page in the text and to get all the subsequent endnotes to reorder, but every time I do this it stubbornly goes right to the end of the endnotes, no 131, and also appears as 131 in the text. This is driving me mad, and I'm frightened of messing up all the endnotes in the book. If anyone can suggest how I resolve this I would be most grateful!

Tom.

Tom25430080215k · Accepted Answer

Many thanks, Barb and James for these suggestions, which may well be useful to me in the future. I tried them without success, however, and was just about tearing my hair out, as I thought I was going to have to strip out all the endnotes and reinsert them one by one. Then I discovered that the problem was not Indesign's endnote feature but entirely my own stupid fault. At some point (trying to resize some pictures) I had cut the bit of text containing note 67, then repasted it into a new text box which was independent of the rest of the text in the book. I had forgotten this when I noticed note 67 was missing. So every time I was reinserting the note, Indesign treated it as a note on a separate bit of text unrelated to the rest of the text and notes in the book. The solution was to cut the rogue piece of text again and paste it into the main text of the book and then note 67 could be inserted in its correct order. I am posting this not so as to parade my own incompetence, but in the hope that if anyone else makes the same mistake in the future they will stumble across this solution! Thanks again for your generous help. Tom.

Debbie5C13 · Answer

I'm having the same issue with Indesign 20.1x64 enterprise edition. I haven't cut off text. I saved to an idml file format reopened and am still having the identical issue. Talk about pulling hair out. I have HUNDREDS of footnotes, endnotes and hyperlinks in this document and none of them are working correctly. Footnotes are not automatically linked. I am having to create text anchors on the footnote within the copy then at the bottom of the page. Endnotes are not in order unless they are created in order.... The process to add hyperlinks is insane: click hyperlink button, click + to add hyperlink, require multiple clicks: unclick shared content, unclick Share Hyperlink Destination, apply style, add Accessibility copy. Then after all of this when I do an accessibility check in Acrobat all of the links show an unmarked annotation error which require another series of clicks for each link and adding a title. I don't know how I am ever going to get the document finished. Everytime I begin a new process something in Indesign is broken. Also this is not happening in just this document, all of my Indesign documents are doing this. I have saved the file locally on my computer and on my network. I have been talking to Adobe techs, I think, since November.

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