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Manually Change Footnote Numbering

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
November 15, 2016
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Hi all,

I have a document with multiple stories on a spread. i would like some of the footnotes to be numbered consecutively. I know that InDesign won't flow the numbers from one story to another, but is there any way to manually change the numbers? I would only have to do this one or two times.

Thanks!

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THR online

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What is it they say? – Any fool can make something sound complicated. It takes a true expert to simplify something so all can understand it!

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RaizelDesignAuthor

Inspiring

I'm sorry if I've offended. I think I've figured it out anyway.

Thanks for your help.

Obi-wan Kenobi

Legend

Not you! I talked about someone whose avatar is "amaarora"!

I'll take time to help you later!

(^/)

jane-e

Community Expert

Do the controls in Footnote Options work?

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RaizelDesignAuthor

Inspiring

The controls work, they just didn't help in that case. The footnotes stayed the same. The only way I was able to achieve the consecutive numbering was by threading the text boxes - something that I had been trying to avoid, but, oh, well.

Sandee Cohen

Legend

Hi Obi

Can you explain the trick?

cheers

Vinny,

Obi-wan is a very clever guy and definitely has pushed ID into doing something that ordinarily can't be done.

I tried, this morning, to replicate his solution so I could share it with you. (Something Obi-wan doesn't do much.)

I'm sorry if you're as frustrated as I am with this nonsense. And I'm VERY frustrated.

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