InDesign Endnote Formatting

[Experimentistics]

In InDesign all of my end notes are URLs but not all of them are showing as hyperlinks (see screenshot).  Additionally, I cannot find anything on how to get the second line of the end notes to line up with the first line.  It just doesn't look good.  Any way to get them to display like bullet points?  

[Rene Andritsch]

@Experimentistics So for the active hyperlink I guess they already come from your Word-document if they are imported. Check if there is a character style for a hyperlink that got applied. Because it is blue and underlined as well.

To get the second line line up I would do a Find/Replace with GREP like in the screenshot below. 

The find what means:

~U … Endnote Reference Marker

\t … Tab

So Indesign will find every occurance of an Endnote Reference Marker combined with a tab

then it will replace it with

$0 … Found Text

~i … Indent to Here
which will align everything to the start of the URL

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

A simple outdented style for the end notes should produce aligned text without any need for GREP replacement and the wonky 'indent to here' marker.

[Experimentistics]

Rene-  Thank you.  That worked!  Much appreciated.

[Rene Andritsch]

@Experimentistics I guess James meant using a combination of a positive left indent and a negative left indent for the first line. You can style it as you like and then define it as a Paragraph Style. Then use this Paragraph Style in the Endnote Options. This would be the better option as it is consistent all over the document and it is less manual interference. Playing with the negative left indent for the first line can be a bit finicky. If the value for the negative left indent gets higher (in absolute terms) as the left indent for the first line (ie. left indent 6 / left indent first line -7) InDesign will through you an error message. Just that you are aware of that. That can sometimes be frustrating if you adjust the second value first.

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

As this is the standard way to format footnotes, endnotes, bullets and numbered lists — anything with a hanging first line...