Reply To: Importing Word files into InDesign

Importing the footnotes in your .docx should work just fine. Strange.

You might try Maggying the Word doc and saving as a new file, see if that solves any problems. I have a chapter in my Smarter Workflows with Word and InDesign course (just published on LinkedIn) that’s all about quick fix techniques, and RTF roundtrip and Maggying are a couple of them.

To Maggy a file, open it in Word, Select all, Shift>Left Arrow to deselect the final return, Copy, create a new Word file, Paste, Save with a different name. That removes some internal corruption. Worth a shot.

AM
PS Here’s the Maggying video: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/smarter-workflows-with-indesign-and-word/remove-internal-corruption-in-word