All my files were Doc. Changing the Doc to Docx fixed it for me. I was working with the Ge'ez script and was losing my mind. Thank you for these solutions!
Here's the revised version with your addition included: Thanks for this tutorial. I have a question for you. I need to layout a long book with about 10 chapters, each in a separate Word file. Every chapter has hundreds of endnotes, all linked to their references. However, the author decided to restart the endnotes from 1 for each chapter, so there is no numerical continuity of references between chapters. When I placed Chapter 1 into InDesign, everything was fine. But when I placed Chapter 2, that's when the problems started. InDesign didn't restart the endnotes from 1; instead, it continued numbering from where Chapter 1 left off. For example, Chapter 1 has 252 references, and Chapter 2 has 350. InDesign numbered Chapter 2's endnotes starting from 253, and all the references from chapter 2 above that number simply disappeared. How can I fix this? Or should I ask the author to combine all the chapters and endnotes into a single Word document?
There are a couple different ways to handle this. 1., you could make your Endnotes "static," or no longer "live" in each separate InDesign document before combining them via a Book. 2., tell your Endnotes to "Restart Every Story" instead of remaining "Continuous."
@@beckysgraphicdesign Thanks so much. Today at 3am after several adicitional research and videos I have found that "Restart Every Story" option is the one to go with, but first, you need to ensure that you break the continuity of the text flow at the beginning of each chapter. This allows InDesign to restart the sequence from 1 and maintain the link to the respective endnote and chapter, even though every chapter's endnote will also start at 1. To break the text continuity, I had to use a built-in InDesign script called "BrakeTextThread," which works perfectly on my InDesign 2021 version. I initially tried an older script called "SplitStory," but it doesn't work on my version. Thanks a lot for your time to reply and suggestions and I hope this post will help others with the same issue I had.
Hello! Good video! My problem is that the footnote appears in the text imported from Word, BUT! their numbering is not good. That is, not a superscript. What to do? Paragraph style and the Footnote settings menu do not help. Have any idea? Thank you very much for your help!
Is there any sort of imported Character Style for "Endnote Reference" or similar? Try changing that to "Superscript." Otherwise, you can run a Find/Change for digits in the text, following whatever format your numbers do and apply a superscript to them.
If you're using a Book document, sometimes the numbering won't appear properly until you export the file as a whole. Also, check that you don't have "Restart Numbering Every:" checked under Type>Footnote Options
@@beckysgraphicdesign Thank you very much. Indeed, not having finished the book I didn't think of that. I do the same job as you but in France and I love your videos which are very explicit and which have solved many situations for me.
All my files were Doc. Changing the Doc to Docx fixed it for me. I was working with the Ge'ez script and was losing my mind. Thank you for these solutions!
Great to hear!
Another fix: save Word document as an RTF. Place the RTF version and it will allow footnotes to import just fine and keep most formatting.
Cool!
Thanks! The RTF format fixed my endnote issue!
Solved... Thankssssssss
Thank you so much! 💃💃 It worked for me to change it to Word 97-2003
Good!!
RTF works 100% for sure! Don't mess with DOC or DOCX under any circumstances!
Thank you so much. This video solved one of my biggest nightmares…😊🖤
All the best…😊
Glad it helped! It was my nightmare, too!
Great tip! I still want to know why a file name would prevent footnotes from appearing in placement.
I'd love to know! They can be very squirrely.
Thanck you!!
You're welcome!
Here's the revised version with your addition included:
Thanks for this tutorial. I have a question for you. I need to layout a long book with about 10 chapters, each in a separate Word file. Every chapter has hundreds of endnotes, all linked to their references. However, the author decided to restart the endnotes from 1 for each chapter, so there is no numerical continuity of references between chapters.
When I placed Chapter 1 into InDesign, everything was fine. But when I placed Chapter 2, that's when the problems started. InDesign didn't restart the endnotes from 1; instead, it continued numbering from where Chapter 1 left off. For example, Chapter 1 has 252 references, and Chapter 2 has 350. InDesign numbered Chapter 2's endnotes starting from 253, and all the references from chapter 2 above that number simply disappeared.
How can I fix this? Or should I ask the author to combine all the chapters and endnotes into a single Word document?
There are a couple different ways to handle this. 1., you could make your Endnotes "static," or no longer "live" in each separate InDesign document before combining them via a Book. 2., tell your Endnotes to "Restart Every Story" instead of remaining "Continuous."
@@beckysgraphicdesign Thanks so much. Today at 3am after several adicitional research and videos I have found that "Restart Every Story" option is the one to go with, but first, you need to ensure that you break the continuity of the text flow at the beginning of each chapter. This allows InDesign to restart the sequence from 1 and maintain the link to the respective endnote and chapter, even though every chapter's endnote will also start at 1. To break the text continuity, I had to use a built-in InDesign script called "BrakeTextThread," which works perfectly on my InDesign 2021 version. I initially tried an older script called "SplitStory," but it doesn't work on my version. Thanks a lot for your time to reply and suggestions and I hope this post will help others with the same issue I had.
Ah! Yes, SplitStory.jsx doesn't work for me anymore, either, but SplitStory by Adi Ravid does!
Thanks from Spain. You solved my problem. ^^
Glad I could help! I couldn't find anything about this online, so when I finally found the solution, I decided I definitely needed to share!
Thank you so much ☺☺
No problem 😊
Hello! Good video! My problem is that the footnote appears in the text imported from Word, BUT! their numbering is not good. That is, not a superscript. What to do? Paragraph style and the Footnote settings menu do not help. Have any idea? Thank you very much for your help!
Is there any sort of imported Character Style for "Endnote Reference" or similar? Try changing that to "Superscript." Otherwise, you can run a Find/Change for digits in the text, following whatever format your numbers do and apply a superscript to them.
Amazing
Great video, but I don't have this Save as option: Word 2007 - 2019 format :(
Oh, really? What text editor are you using?
🙂 Hello, do you know how to have footnotes that follow each other instead of having footnotes that start at 1 in each indd file? Thank you
If you're using a Book document, sometimes the numbering won't appear properly until you export the file as a whole. Also, check that you don't have "Restart Numbering Every:" checked under Type>Footnote Options
@@beckysgraphicdesign Thank you very much.
Indeed, not having finished the book I didn't think of that.
I do the same job as you but in France and I love your videos which are very explicit and which have solved many situations for me.
🌺 Promo-SM!!
Thank you so much! Your video saved my life
Glad it helped! It's a really frustrating problem when it happens!