Find "phantom" endnote?

[turner111]

On the very last page of a book, I have a stand-alone, otherwise empty text box in a document. It has an endnote icon.

When I delete it, I get a warning saying "This operation will also delete the corresponding endnote references."

If I convert it to a footnote, it says "Successfully converted 0 Endnote to Footnote."

There were originally some endnotes imported from Word, but were converted to static text.

I don't know how to find whatever in the text is causing the "endnote."

Any idea how to troubleshoot this?

TIA

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

So what happens if you just delete the stray frame? If you've converted the prior endnotes to text, this action should only take any stray/leftover/bogus markers with it.

You can search for endnote markers, using ^U in text search mode. With hidden characters turned on, that should let you find any stray marker and delete it. (Sometimes you have to delete all the text around it and retype a few words to be sure.)

If that doesn't turn anything up, try the ID doc purge — save the file as IDML, open that file and re-save as INDD under a new name. See if the problem persists.

[turner111]

Hi James - thanks for the notes.

I'm not sure what happens if I delete the frame, as I can't really monitor all the pages to see if anything changes. 

I tried a search for ^U, but nothing shows up, so I'll try the IDML method next.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@turner111

Try adding a new ENDnote - maybe this will add the missing one?

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

If this is for print, an empty page at the end can be ignored or deleted from the result.

[Abhishek Rao]

Hi @turner111,

Did you get a chance to try out the suggestions shared by the experts, especially the IDML method or adding a new endnote to potentially resolve the issue? Let us know how it worked out or if you’re still experiencing the problem-we’re here to help! 

Best, 

Abhishek Rao