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• • April 9, 2018 at 6:59 pm #103004
    Clark Kenyon

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    Looking at Document Footnote options, I see that I can restart footnotes on every page, on every spread, and at every “section.” Not sure what ID means by section. I have a book where all the text frames are threaded. Is there a way to get InDesign to restart footnotes at every chapter?

  • April 9, 2018 at 9:03 pm #103005
    Aaron Troia

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    The sections are kind of like points you can add thoughout a document, they can control page numbering, the section variable, and a few other things (https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/numbering-pages-chapters-sections.html probably could explain it better). So if you select the page in the Page window, right click and select “Numbering & Section Options” you get a little arrow over the page in the Page window. You can add these where ever you want, I’ve used them at the beginning of chapters for using the Section variable (well, before I realized how to use the Running Headers variable). I’m guessing this is what you would need to restart them every chapter.

    I was thinking they did, but then remembered that our house style is to restart footnotes every page.

    Aaron

  • April 10, 2018 at 9:33 am #103021
    Clark Kenyon

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    Oh yeah, sections. What’s the matter with me. I’m like you. Used to set chapters off into sections to have different running headers until I discovered text variables. I started a new section at the chapter where I wanted the footnote numbers to reset and that fixed it. Thanks.

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