[ CC-2019 and 2020 ] The Convert-Endnotes-To-Footnotes Disaster SCOPE: SELECTION

Hi together,
I'm using the menu dialog, not the context menu, for converting endnotes to footnotes.

Scope: Selection

The result is not as expected.

My test document contains 7 endnotes in one story. No footnotes.

Endnote texts:

Structure of endnote texts with the Story Editor window:

Now I selected the endnote texts to convert endnotes to footnotes.

Note, that I did not select all the text of the first and the seventh endnote:

From my German InDesign 2020 scope is Selection ( Auswahl 😞

The result is not as expected. See my comments in the screenshot.

Endnote 1 and endnote 7 were not converted. I assume because I did not select all of the endnote text.

The result message is rather irritating.

I had 7 endnotes before. The message suggests that only 4 out of 7 were actually recognized.

3 that were converted plus 1 that could not converted for unknown reasons.

Let's see what happened one page 1 with the footnote results.

In my screenshot below I can see several issues:

1. There are 4 footnotes now. Hm. Message said 3 endnotes were converted.

Obviously there is something wrong with that. And yes, next to the footnote 3 reference is still an endnote reference. An endnote that was not removed after the conversion process.

2. All the endnote references are now formatted like the word where they are attached to.

3. In my 4th footnote text the first character is missing and the endnote special character was moved t the footnote text. Plus several separation characters were added!

All my test files can be downloaded from my Dropbox account:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3xbi8c7nig9emxw/200219-1-Endnote-to-Footnote-Issues.zip?dl=0

Before discussing this further:

1. Let's concentrate on Convert Endnotes to Footnotes with Scope Selection here.

I already added one similar thread with scope on Document and will add yet another one about Using the Context Menu with Selection because both functions yield different issues.

2. I will add the link to a bug report on UserVoice in my next post here. Please vote for fixing the bugs.

Thanks,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )