Importing Endnotes

[Dative]

So I regularly get word documents with a lot of endnotes, I need to import them so they restart at each chapter and also restart at each chapter in the endnotes. Is there a way to do this so InDesign does most of the work for me? I've been importing it then fixing them all manually but I'm certain there must be an easier way. Any suggestions?

[Mike Witherell]

Have you tried "Show Import Options" when placing the file? You get a tiny bit of help there. Third-party plug-ins might take you further, tho.

[Dative]

I have unfortunately, as far as I'm aware it doesn't give me enough options, I may be wrong though. I should also mention that the word documents I'm working with are NOT well formatted.

[Mike Witherell]

Oh boy. Well, as you know, paragraph and character styles are everything to clever workflow!

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Hi,

Be patient! CC 2018 soon! … 

(^/)

[Steve Werner]

Very soon...

[BobLevine]

Very, very soon.

[Mike Witherell]

Now!

[Steve Werner]

Yes! Beware again that the default is to REMOVE OLD VERSIONS! You have to uncheck that checkbox.

[amaarora]

Hi,

See this Dynamic endnotes – Adobe InDesign Feedback

-Aman

[Dative]

Thanks all!

[Steve Werner]

You should download InDesign CC 2018 which can create and import Word endnotes. Download from the CC Desktop app.

Read about the features in this article:

https://indesignsecrets.com/whats-new-indesign-cc-2018.php

[Ian Blogs]

At last! endnotes in Indesign. An initial trial of them is positive. They seem to do the job well.

[PeggySue59]

I have the same problem, and probably missing something with cc2018. I have a long document in Word with endnotes. In the Word file, the endnotes are numbered correctly 1, 2, etc for each chapter, starting at 1 for each chapter. When I import into ID, the numbers are all sequential and not starting at 1 for each chapter. My clumsy workaround has been to cut and paste the Word doc into individual chapters, and then bring them in as separate files.

I tried importing the file into cc2018 and had the same results. I don't need to keep the endnotes "live" in the ID file. Any suggestions?

[Laubender]

You are missing nothing, I think.

Doing several Word docs—one doc for every chapter—is a valid workaround.

If you want endnotes with InDesign CC 2018 you have to keep them "live".

Regards,
Uwe

[PeggySue59]

Good to know that I'm not missing anything but this type of thing drives me nuts. Thanks for the input.