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andrewm98108861
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November 15, 2019
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Footnotes reset halfway through document

  • November 15, 2019
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I'm hoping there's a solution beyond "start over."

 

I have a 244 page book laid out in Indesign. The original content was built in 3 different word docs. I'm fairly certain that the issue I'm about to describe goes back to the content import from word, but there's a lot of water under that bridge at this point.

 

When I get to the second section (originally the second word doc) the footnote number resets to 1 and starts counting up. The content is all in a single story. It's all linked. But for whatever reason, if I insert a footnote on page 108, it goes to the next footnote number (52 in this case). When I insert the same note on 109, it goes back to 1.

 

I've checked, restart numbering isn't activated in the footnote options. The page where the reset happens isn't marked as a new section. But, no matter what I do, I can't get it to pickup and continue the footnote numbering.

 

Anyone ever run into this one before?

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Correct answer andrewm98108861

In case someone else should ever run into this: it is very possible that your document appears properly linked because someone ran a second set of text frames through a document. What you think you're seeing and what you're actually seeing may be two different things.

 

I copied the content from the second set of frames, pasted it into the actually linked frames, and the footnote numbering automagically resumed working.

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andrewm98108861AuthorCorrect answer
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November 15, 2019

In case someone else should ever run into this: it is very possible that your document appears properly linked because someone ran a second set of text frames through a document. What you think you're seeing and what you're actually seeing may be two different things.

 

I copied the content from the second set of frames, pasted it into the actually linked frames, and the footnote numbering automagically resumed working.

Jongware
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JongwareCommunity Expert
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November 16, 2019

The fun part is that you could also have clicked the last frame's "out" port (your cursor should change to indicate it's Loaded and Ready to Fire) and then click on the first frame of that unconnected thread. Then you don't need to re-fill all of your pages.

Only thing to be wary of is that if there is no hard return at the end of the first story, InDesign will happily join this paragraph with the first one in the next story. So before you do this, add a single Page Break at the end of the first story, and all'll be well.

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