Footnotes import word

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July 8, 2024
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Hi.

New to import word document to Indesign, but read a lot of tutorials. I made grid and paragrafstyles, but I´ve an issue with footnotes. Its like Indesign makes a tab, that i cant remove in first footnote (see red area at attached photo). How do I fix that? And can I change all numbering from normal numbers to superscript with find and replace?

Best regards Peter.

How to

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Barb Binder

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Check the Footnote alignment. It looks like you have it set to Justify, with the Last Line Aligned Centered. Then redefine your style to fix the rest of them.

~Barb

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Peter5EBBAuthor

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Thats not it... I´ve tried to remove the footnote, copy the orignal text from word into notepad, copy from there and the reinsert the footnote directly to Indesign - the same thing happens... But if I make an break at the end, it vill align but there will be space to the buttom of the page... Strange. I don´t understand it.

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Hi Peter:

InDesign doesn't add random tabs to the middle of the notes—there is either a line break or tab at that location in the Word file. Could you please repost the first screen shot without the red color and with Type > Show Hidden Characters enabled?

As for part two, you control the look of the numbers in Type > Footnote Properties. Set the paragraph style for the notes there, and then add a nested character style to the Footnote paragraph style to add the superscript.

~Barb

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Peter5EBBAuthor

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Hi Barb. Thanks for replying. I managed to change the paragraph style, but still cant see the problem with the tab... See screenshot...

Best regards.