footnotes numbering not continuing

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September 16, 2019
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After reading through previous questions on this matter, I created a threaded 40-pg document (very inconvenient for layout) and still am having problems with my footnote numbering. It restarts at #1 with each page. I need to have a continuous number from page 1 thru 40, so by the end my footnotes may be up to numbers 35-40. Surely InDesign can do this, right?

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Barb Binder

Community Expert

Hi Sandy: This is a different question. Adunate was asking about numbering in single file, you are asking about continuing numbering across chapters in a book. This is not currently a feature in InDesign.

Footnote numbering is not continued across documents in a book. If you don’t want numbering to restart in each document with the book, change the Start At value manually in each document after the editing is final.

—https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/footnotes.html

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

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Terrylcoltonphd

Participant

It should not be a seperate issue. It is Adobes lack of listening to the customers. It is about money not support of us, always has been since the original company got bought out and they moved to a profit only company. The only way to get them to listen is for users to band togther and stop using adobe products until they start listening. Ha, if high paid folks will be willing to do what unions are doing.

Barb Binder

Community Expert

The only way to get them to listen is for users to band togther and stop using adobe products until they start listening.

Or—since this is how most of us pay our bills—file a feature request and get people to vote it up. The more interest a feature request receives, the more likely Adobe is to work on it.

https://indesign.uservoice.com

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Hi adunate:

Yes, InDesign can do this, and it is the default for new documents, so the question is why yours isn't working. Would you mind sharing a screen shot that mirrors mine? It should show us the Pages panel, a two-page spread with a text frame selected and text threads visible.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

SandyOgilvie416

Participant

I am having same issue. I have long document with multiple chapters that are split into different text frames. The footnotes are fine in Chapter 1, but in Chapter 2, they start back a 1 again instead of being continuous.

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