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• • May 5, 2021 at 8:59 am #14339097
    Prof. Caju

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    Is there a way to thread two text frames that already have text in it?

    Particularly, I have my main story (educational book), and a last page that has the endnotes. I’d like to put these endnotes in the end of the main story, and not in a separated story.

    Is there a way to accomplish this?

    Kind regards,

  • May 5, 2021 at 9:07 am #14339098
    David Blatner

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    Actually, it’s very easy!

    1. Use the Selection tool to select either one of the frames.
    2. Then (if you have the main story selected), click the out port (lower-right corner); or (if you have the endnote frame selected) click the in port in the upper-left corner. That loads the place cursor.
    3. Click the place cursor on top of the other frame.

    Here is more about threading frames together:

    InDesign 101: Flowing Text

  • May 5, 2021 at 9:15 am #14339099
    Prof. Caju

    Participant

    Thanks for the answer, David.

    I can do this step by step that you pointed out with any other text frame but the endnote text frame! I don’t know why, but the automatically created endnote text frame is kind of different.

    If I load the cursor with the text clicking the in or out port (either from the main story or from the endnote text frame), the mouse doesn’t turn to a chain link when hovering the other one. But if I create a new text frame, or use any other text frame but the endnote text frame, I can have the chain link mouse.

    When clicking in the main story text frame with the mouse loaded with endnote text, indesign creates a new text frame above the main story text frame, it doesn’t thread one to another :(

  • May 6, 2021 at 3:48 am #14339133
    Dieter Stockert

    Member

    In the story editor you can see that footnotes live in the same story with the text they are referring to, but endnotes do not. Maybe this is the reason why you cannot link the test frame and the endnote frame together. What you can do is, however, copy and paste the endnotes in a new text frame. These endnotes, that are copied, are no longer real endnotes, and so you can link them to where you want.

  • May 6, 2021 at 9:27 am #14339138
    Michel Allio for FRIdNGE

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    There’re 4 types of “Story” in InDesign you can’t thread between them: “Common” (regular story), TOC, Index and … Endnotes!

    That’s the orthodoxy as how ID works!

    Does that mean you can’t play with “endnotes” in a “common” story?…

    (^/) The Jedi

  • May 6, 2021 at 9:34 am #14339139
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Wow! That is interesting. I did not realize that limitation.
    Perhaps one of the scripts on this page will help (for example, converting endnotes to static text): https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/footnotes.html

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