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Hello everyone,
I have a Word document that contains footnotes. When I import this Word document into InDesign, it should normally come with its footnotes, but for some reason only footnotes after a certain point are imported. While there are a total of 112 footnotes in the Word document, only footnotes after the 32nd footnote are imported into InDesign.
I have never encountered such a problem before, so I don't know if the problem is with Word or InDesign. I am using Word version 16.44 and InDesign version 18.4.
Thank you in advance to anyone who can help."
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Unfortunately, problems with foot and end notes from Word are more common than not. It can take a number of attempts, with various fixes and tweaks in each, to get a full set of notes to import correctly.
Since some notes are importing, that bypasses a few potential problems. The most likely reason is that the Word file is corrupt in some way, so try these steps:
If that still won't import the document correctly, report back and we'll try the next steps.
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I was surprised to see that the problem was solved when I saved the file as ‘.doc’ using the ‘Save As’ option instead of ‘.docx’. While it’s certainly gratifying that the solution was so simple, the possibility of such a major error recurring in other documents is equally frightening.
Since the problem is not with Indesign, is there a way to detect this problem initially from Word? Perhaps saving other documents as ‘.doc’ may not work and potential problems may go unnoticed. Unfortunately, Word is not an application I am very familiar with, so from which menu and settings could we detect such a problem beforehand?
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DOCX is Microsoft's proprietary format - Adobe can only try to reverse engineer it.
DOC is similar - but Adobe had much more time to try and "crack" it.
DOCX -> DOC/RTF conversion also strips / simplifies latest features.