Footnote in table is numbered 1 and not with other footnotes at bottom of page

[markeeeee]

I am working on a report with footnotes. The footnotes appear at the bottom of the page where I want them. But I have just added a table to a page halfway through the report. The table includes a footnote. But this footnote is numbered 1 and sits at the bottom of the table – it should be numbered 158 and sit with the other footnotes at the bottom of the page.

How can I get this footnote (which is outside the flow or thread of the text of the report) to have the correct number and be displayed with the other footnotes?

[vladan saveljic]

can you share a screenshot of your page?

[vladan saveljic]

...and show hidden characters

[Barb Binder]

Hi @markeeeee:

Your table is not in the main story—it's in an unthreaded frame. Cut the table and paste it into the main story and the numbers will increment as you want them to. 

~Barb

[markeeeee]

Yes you're right, it is in an unthreaded frame. But how do I put a box containing text, into the main story?

I've copied and pasted the seperate text frame / box into the text (and get the anchor symbol) but the footnote is still displayed at the bottom of this text frame

[Barb Binder · Accepted solution]

Cut/paste the table, not the frame containing the table.

~Barb

[markeeeee]

Sorry I miscommunicated. It isn't a table, but a box. A heading and a few bullet points inside a box with a frame/border around it. ... I guess I could make a one cell table (one row, one column)... I guess that would work

[markeeeee]

Yup, a one cell table works. It keeps the text with the thread and I get to style my box. Thank you

[vladan saveljic]

@markeeeee 

sometimes for a graphic layout the table can't be threaded with the main story.
if this is your case share with us the screenshot of the page.
If that's not your case then do as Barb wrote

[Barb Binder]

Hi @markeeeee:

Glad you are back on track. We are always happy to help. 

~Barb

[Laubender]

EDITED:

Apparently I came too late for my comments.

And Barb was showing a better way to cut and paste a table.

Hi markeeeee,

a possible cause of this behavior:

The table sits in its own text frame that is anchored to the main text:

You could move the special character that actually is the table from the anchored text frame to an insertion point of the main text. Best move it to the first insertion point of an empty paragraph.

Do that from a Story Editor window of the anchored text frame.

To move text with the Selection tool from the Story Editor Window to your Layout Window is possible by default.

No change needed in the InDesign preferences.

Scroll down to section Use the Story Editor here:

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/editing-text.html

Here an example for one Story Editor window that I opened from the anchored text frame.

You see the table symbol with the rows and the cells with its contents:

To move that table character, the table symbol, close it, select it:

Move the selected special character either directly to text in the Layout window or drag it to a different Story Editor window's text contents that you opened like I did that here:

I dragged the selected special character from the right window just behind the anchor symbol of the anchored text frame in the left window:

That will reorder the footnotes at the bottom of the text frame.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[Laubender]

markeeeee said:

"Sorry I miscommunicated. It isn't a table, but a box. A heading and a few bullet points inside a box with a frame/border around it. ... I guess I could make a one cell table (one row, one column)... I guess that would work"

I missed this also…

Yes, that's the way to go. Instead an anchored text frame use a one cell table that flows with the main text.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )