Reply To: Import Endnotes as plain text in CC2018?

Jamie,

Thanks for corroborating my experience. As for using a script to populate the subtitles, that’s cool – always good to know about these things. So far I’ve never used page #s in the subheads. We always use chapter titles and there are not so many that it needs to be scripted. But I can see how that could be handy in repetitive situations. We definitely use text variables for running footers etc. so I’m familiar with the idea. My rule of thumb is that if I have to do the same thing 3 times in a row, I should find a way to have the computer do it for me.

FYI, I do as little as possible in Word; I vastly prefer working in the InDesign interface for applying styles. I do most of this with Multi Find Change, and at least I know that since I’m already in InDesign, whatever I do won’t get lost during an import.

Funny, I never imagined that they could find a way to add a feature that would make InDesign worse re: endnotes, or that would prevent us from using the latest version. But the way the endnotes are now, it’s definitely worse than not being there at all. I guess we’ll have to add more control of the endnotes to the InDesign feature request list. And, keep working in CC2017 for books with endnotes.