This came up in a discussion on the LinkedIn “InDesign Secrets” group a few months ago. The person was asking about “blind endnotes” (a phrase I had not heard before).
My answer was:
I don’t know of any way to import blind endnotes from Word, but I do have a good solution for adding page numbers in InDesign: cross-references. Usually, x-refs point to paragraphs, but you can also point to a specific point in text using Text Anchors. I describe how to do this in this article: https://creativepro.com/creating-cross-references-text-anchors/
Then, you would want to create a custom cross-reference style that shows only the page number… or perhaps the page number followed by a dot and a space… or something like that. There’s more on editing the x-ref style here: https://creativepro.com/adding-the-last-page-number-in-a-book-to-text/
Peter Kahrel also wrote a script for me that I think does this… but I would need to dig it up. Would you want to test it?
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