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InDesign endnotes go before information for previous endnote

Community Beginner ,
Feb 16, 2018 Feb 16, 2018

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1. Things were fine until I got started on chapter 2 of the book. I couldn't find a way to start over with endnote 1. If someone has a solution, I'd love to hear it.

2. The main frustration is: when I insert a new endnote, say 47, on the endnote page it inserts the number in front of the data for endnote 46, and moves the data down. Endnote 46 is still there, but has no reference information. I can cut the info and paste it back where it belongs, but InDesign just does the same thing next time - endnote 48 moves down the data from endnote 47.

It doesn't matter where I put the cursor. I've tried it after the endnote information, on the following line where the new endnote will go, and (as I grew more aggravated) at random spots on the page. It simply moves down the info from the previous endnote.

I have to match the endnotes with a list in Word, and am copying from Word and pasting into InDesign. It worked fine for chapter 1. I'm only a little way into chapter 2, and there are 8 chapters.

Does anyone have any idea how to solve this?

Thanks

Lynn

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Community Beginner , Feb 19, 2018 Feb 19, 2018

Found the solution by accident - or maybe I was just more awake.

When pasting info into the endnote page, it must go INSIDE the end bracket InDesign creates for the endnote information. I somehow did it correctly for chapter 1, but when I came back to chapter 2 much later, I was pasting it after the end bracket.

Glad that's fixed!

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Feb 16, 2018 Feb 16, 2018

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Endnotes are started by doing the same thing you do for footnotes: position your cursor in the body text of the page; then click on Type > Insert Endnotes. This propels you to the end page with the cursor blinking in the correct place within the endnotes special textframe.

If you go to a Word doc and copy an endnote manually, you would return to InDesign and do the above procedure. You would not go directly to the endnotes special textframe and try to paste it as an additional bit of text. It wont work because it does not have its anchor character embedded within the bodytext of the story.

Properly begun, you would File > Place the Word doc, choosing to Show Import Options (or shift click Open button) and place the Word doc with Endnotes turned on.

Mike Witherell

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Feb 19, 2018 Feb 19, 2018

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Thank you, Michael. Every bit of knowledge is helpful. I wish I could place the Word doc, but the author assigned numbers to the sources, and used those same numbers repeatedly throughout the document, so I have to match carefully as I go thru, assigning consecutive endnote numbers.

Copy-paste from Word to InDesign works as long as I put the cursor in the right place when I'm pasting the info - inside the end bracket. But I was able to set the style for importing the info, using the Endnotes options, which is a big help!

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Found the solution by accident - or maybe I was just more awake.

When pasting info into the endnote page, it must go INSIDE the end bracket InDesign creates for the endnote information. I somehow did it correctly for chapter 1, but when I came back to chapter 2 much later, I was pasting it after the end bracket.

Glad that's fixed!

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Thank you so much !!!!

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