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Use 2 different footnotes style in one page

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October 18, 2018
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I'm trying to add two different footnotes style on a page but it seems that InDesign won't allow that!
So I have the usual numbering footnotes (1,2,3,4...) and then I have another style which is an asterisk "*"
I tried to change the footnote style but that did not work as you can only use one style in a document!
Is there any way to bypass this?

Thanks

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Legend

It's not really possible to have 2 sets of numbering in footnotes in InDesign.

If you need a single footnote at the beginning of a chapter that has an asterisk, you can fake that.

But if you need intermingled footnotes on multiple pages, there's nothing to support that.

A screenshot of the layout would help though. Are the two footnote sets intermingled, or is one below the other?

Ariel

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Could you explain how one would fake what you described?

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Community Expert

Here's one approach, assuming that you want the first note not numbered or 'numbered' with an asterisk:

Copy the text of the first note to the second note and delete the first note. Type an asterisk where the note reference was: