InDesign Endnotes to Static Endnotes

This script is part of the Notes collection. See the full collection here. For more information about using the scripts in this collection, see  Adding and Deleting Notes: Managing Cross-References.

The script converts InDesign’s endnotes to static endnotes. Both the note references and the note numbers are static.

The script has no interface. To use it, open a document and run the script. It uses the document’s note scope (story or document), so that story endnotes are placed at the end of their parent stories and document endnotes are moved to the end of the document.

For styles, the script uses the character style and the paragraph style set up in the document’s Endnote options window (Type > Document Endnote Options).

Requires InDesign CC2018 or later.

Version history

14 Oct. 2025: The script now supports lower-case Roman numbers inaddition to Arabic numbers.

16 Sept. 2025: A bug fix to deal with the placement of end-of-document notes; the note title was never placed, now it is.

19 July 2024: Some changes to this page to fix confusion about script names. The script wasn’t changed.

24 June 2021: The script now handles table notes.

14 Oct. 2018: Update needed to deal with a change in CC 2019.

16 June 2018: The script made a mess of documents containing footnotes in addition to endnotes. Fixed.

15 May 2018: Fix needed to deal with tables.

21 Oct. 2017: Posted.

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