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• • December 1, 2014 at 5:04 pm #71956
    Lindsey Martin

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    Quark has advertised that XPress 2015 will have footnotes (finally!) and endnotes. May give us a bit of leverage in asking – again – for endnotes in InDesign.

  • December 1, 2014 at 5:44 pm #71961
    Allan Shearer

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    Hi Crych

    I hadn’t realised that InDesign doesn’t have Endnotes. I bet you’ve been looking for that for a long time, eh? :)

    Well … I wonder … would a pseudo-Endnote solution work ok?

    I found you can ‘fake’ Endnotes with somewhat success by using Numbered Lists and Cross References. Thus … place all of your Endnotes in a separate story at the end of your document and then apply a Paragraph Style with Numbering. Perhaps call that Style “Endnotes”. Then, wherever you need to enter each Endnote reference, simply insert a Cross Reference and then choose the Endnote paragraph style from the list … select the endnote you specifically want to reference at this point in the document … set the Cross References Format to “Paragraph Number” and then click on the little Pencil icon to apply the formatting. I chose a new Character Style called ‘Endnote’ whereby I had defined a ‘Superscript’ attribute. Seems to work nicely.

    I know … it’s not ‘real’ Endnotes, but … it gets you through in a pinch.

    Hope this helps.

    Allan

  • December 2, 2014 at 5:41 am #71969
    Anonymous

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    https://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/foot_to_endnote.html

  • December 2, 2014 at 6:03 am #71970
    Tom Venetia

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    Hello Crych,
    If the original manuscript was written using MS Word, then it is very easy to convert footnotes into endnotes.
    First you convert in Word the footnotes into endnotes and save the file with this change.
    Then you import this file into ID (Ctrl-D) and place it on the pages where they belong.
    The footnote references (superscript chars) remain where they originally were (adjoin to the words they reference) and the endnotes are placed at the last page(s) keeping the paragraph style and name the author has assigned inside the Word file to footnotes. Of course you can rename this style to anything you wish and define new type formatting and paragraph style features.
    Regards
    Tom

  • December 2, 2014 at 8:21 am #71974
    Allan Shearer

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    If it happens to be that you’re not importing your text with endnotes already defined … that is, if you’re creating everything inside InDesign … then I find the Numbered List and Cross Reference solution works really nicely.

    I’m really impressed by InDesign’s flexibility in allow you to define new “Cross Reference Formats”. Currently the list contains 9 items, including the “Paragraph Number” option which I would use in this example. However … you can ADD to this list, and in doing so, you can create an “Endnote” format, which you can base off of the Paragraph Number format, but then add your own Character Style definition.

    Thus, my Cross Reference Format list now reads (notice the “Endnote” as the new item in the list):

    Full Paragraph & Page Number
    Full Paragraph
    Paragraph Text & Page Number
    Paragraph Text
    Paragraph Number & Page Number
    Paragraph Number
    Text Anchor Name & Page Number
    Text Anchor Name
    Page Number
    Endnote

    Anne-Marie wrote an excellent article on “Creating a custom cross-reference format” in March 2013. The 14-minute video on Lynda.com I found captivating … demonstrating the amazing flexibility natively built-in to InDesign.

    I can’t wait to sink my teeth into Cross Referencing!

    Allan

  • December 2, 2014 at 12:05 pm #71986
    Lindsey Martin

    Member

    Folks,

    Thanks for your help but I know all the work-arounds. But, we should have had the ability to switch between footnotes and endnotes in ID with one click many versions ago and I am hoping that Quark’s adding this feature might spur the ID engineers to move it up the list of requested features.

    LTM

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