How to Use GREP and Scripts to Create Footnotes in InDesign
Learn how to take an InDesign document with no formatting and create a finished document with dynamic endnotes using GREP and some free scripts.
In this “Three Minutes Max” video, Erica Gamet shows how to create footnotes from endnotes with a simple InDesign script, including creating footnote references using GREP. Then she makes those into dynamic endnotes for two-way navigation in an EPUB… all in just three minutes!
Three Minutes Max comes from a fun—yet very competitive—session at our annual CreativePro Week conference. Speakers have three minutes to wow the audience with the tip and win a prize for a lucky conference attendee.
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This article was last modified on August 29, 2025
This article was first published on September 13, 2018
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