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March 20, 2021
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Footnotes don't appear

  • March 20, 2021
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I placed word document in indesign.

However only one third of the footnotes have appearead and the rest is not. They dont appear in the body text either.

What could be the problem.I tried all the placing options , nothing is working

please help

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Correct answer defaultl8ykq8dr7s8n

i tried everything to find the solution. but yes it seemd like there was a character on a particular page that disabled all the rest of the footnotes.

However i lost so much time that i had to DO THE DESIGN IN WORD. I do not recommend and im extremely disapointed in indesign... 

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vnh68
vnh68
Inspiring
April 15, 2021

The same problem exists for languages that ​​use the Cyrillic alphabet. Some footnotes always disappear. There is a non-standard solution to the problem: in Word, you need to replace all Cyrillic characters "K" (upper case "K") with some unused character (for example, "#"). Replace all these characters in the document! Then save a copy of the document and import it into InDesign. In InDesign, you need to replace all the symbols "#" with "K" back. Miraculously, all footnotes are transferred to InDesign.

Perhaps there will be a different solution for other linguistic scripts...

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    LaubenderCommunity Expert
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    April 14, 2021

    Did you identify that special character?

    This could be the core of a bug report you could do at InDesign UserVoice:

    https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs

     

    Also provide a sample docx file where you see the issue.

    I would vote for a fix.

     

    Thanks,
    Uwe Laubender

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      LaubenderCommunity Expert
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      March 22, 2021

      Hi defaultl8ykq8dr7s8n,

      could be that a special character in the Word file will cause the issue.

      What you can try: Instead a docx file format place a doc file format.

       

      What's your version of InDesign?
      What's your operating system?
      What's the version of Word that created the document?

       

      Regards,
      Uwe Laubender

      ( ACP )

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      defaultl8ykq8dr7s8nAuthorCorrect answer
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      March 28, 2021

      i tried everything to find the solution. but yes it seemd like there was a character on a particular page that disabled all the rest of the footnotes.

      However i lost so much time that i had to DO THE DESIGN IN WORD. I do not recommend and im extremely disapointed in indesign... 

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