InDesign 2018 Endnotes

[jprod1]

Is there a way to turn off the new endnote/footnote feature? I understand the convenience of the new option, but I do not want the endnotes to appear in a separate story. I want them to run in the same story as the text. Is there a way to do this? If not, how can I move the endnotes to appear where I want them in the document? I typeset journals so the notes are set after the text and before works cited.

[Julie Karen]

@Laubender

or others...

I am trying to import a Word file with 633 Endnotes into InDesign CC 2019 and 2018 both. It's crashing like crazy. Whether or not I say for it to create static Endnotes it seems to just crash the program. (I VERY MUCH wish this would not be necessary, to convert to static, because ONE change to these endnotes once they're static will be HOURS of work).

Does anyone have any advice? In maybe 20 attempts to import, I think it has only not crashed once, and the one time that it worked, (1) the endnotes are not showing up at the end of the file (2) if i click on an endnote in the body and say "go to endnote" the program crashes.

*Slams head against wall*

[gd247]

I wonder if it might be a font / corruption issue. If it were me I'd try pouring the text into a new blank test document and try using a different font (if it lets you get that far) to see if the issue persists.

[Julie Karen]

Hi gd247 - I think you are right! I realized the client's endnotes were a bit off in the original Word file (some numbers missing / not in sequence) and once he fixed that and send me a new Word file with cleaned up endnotes, I was able to pull it into InDesign 2019 this morning, WITHOUT having to revert to static endnotes, and NO CRASHING. Worked on the first try. The other thing I did to his Word file before bringing it in was approved all the tracked changes the editor had made, just in case having those kind of "extras" in the Word file was making InDesign confused. But I think the biggest problem was in Word, not InDesign! What a relief.  

[Jongware]

At some point, these "follow-up" questions really started to deviate from the original question (which has been answered and updated). These new questions are only relevant because they are also  about the endnote feature. Consider locking this thread, and ask anything else as new separate question.