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April 18, 2016 at 8:12 am in reply to: please help: Indesign – financial document – citation ?? #84090
Ari Singer
MemberThere are two ways to accomplish this:
1) If you don’t use footnotes in your document, then insert all the citations as footnotes. Then use Peter Kahrel’s free Sidenotes script (https://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/sidenotes.html) to convert all footnotes to sidenotes. You can play around with the settings so that each footnote should accompany its parent paragraph in the side of the margin.
If you do use footnotes in your document and this is not an option, then try the following method:
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- Create a small text box the size of an average citation
- Give it an object style
- In the object style settings define the Anchored Object Settings so that it is always in the correct position on the outer margins of the page (make sure to turn on “Relative to Spine” if you have a facing pages document)
- Copy the text box to the clipboard
- Now whenever you want to add a citation just hit Ctrl-V in the text and the citation text box will automatically pop up on the outer margin ready to be filled up with text. And as the text reflows, so does the citation. If set up properly it will even jump to the left margin on a left-facing page.
If your document is very predictable, then you can initiate a Find/Change to place the text boxes in one fell swoop!
Hope this helps.
MemberWhat are you trying to make non-printing: the highlighting behind the text but leave the actual text intact, or you want to omit the entire word when printing?
MemberWas it hyphenated on Wikipedia?
MemberIf hyphenation is turned off, then why is it hyphenated?
MemberTo get what you want is certainly possible through a variety of ways, but can get complicated because it might find any other words that are capitalized. But in your example the entire paragraph seems to only contain names, so why not turn off hyphenation for this entire paragraph?
MemberOh! Now I understand the problem.
MemberThis seems to be a real mystery. Have you tried to open the original template and saving as a new template with a unique file name and then to open the new template and exporting to PDF from there?
MemberI really don’t have any answer to any of your strong questions.
But the reason I asked you to play around with the file name is because I thought that maybe there’s cruft in your Google Drive folder! Maybe there’s a hidden indd, indt, idml or PDF file floating around in that folder that clashes with your file. So I thought maybe if you change the name of the original .indt file and the exported PDF file to a name you never used, maybe that will not clash with the hidden cruft in the folder.
So in this vein, maybe you try something else. Create a new folder within that Google Drive folder and check if it works. If it does, then there probably is cruft in said folder.
MemberDid you try to save the PDF as with a new file name?
MemberThe entire table is regarded as one character in a paragraph, so you manipulate it as such.
Insert your cursor in the paragraph immediately above the table and hit the down-arrow key (or in the paragraph immediately below and hit the up-arrow key), you’ll notice a huge blinking cursor to the side of the entire table, this means the table is selected. Then you change the position by playing with the regular paragraph settings (found in the paragraph panel or control panel) such as left indent, right indent, space before, space after, alignment etc.
MemberWhat do you mean ‘pasteboards don’t line up’? Are you referring to the actual pages or to just to the space around them (aka pasteboard)? And what do you mean they ‘don’t line’ up? Maybe you have facing pages turned on.
MemberMakes perfect sense. But unfortunately I don’t know a better method than assigning it to its own layer and hiding and showing that layer.
MemberI might misunderstand your question, but to set up margins for a facing-pages book so that the spine-side margin is one width and the outer-side margin is another and alternated between right and left pages, you just set up the the margin settings for ‘Inside’ margins and ‘Outside’ margins.
Again, I might have misunderstood your question.
MemberI’m not so in tune with InDesign’s Data Merge functionality, but I think that it’s not the best choice when it comes to tables. But I might be wrong.
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