I worked out that all the frames needed linking for the whole document before the script would run all the way through - I had some orphan frames for tables etc. However I had a message that said it was failing part way through the document due mismatched number of superscripts and references. I restarted InDesign 2018 with a fresh backup version of my file. I had another go this morning (UK time zone) and got it all working. I was thinking it would be easier to have all the numbers automatically replaced as endnotes and then I just have to double check the numbers, then just cut and paste the endnotes all in one go at the end, comparing it my original document rather than jumping about all over the place.
My main question now is: is there a way to automate inserting blank endnotes into the document using a find and replace function? It's a bit of a pain to insert with keyboard shortcut and then return to reference via right hand click. I'm happy I can do this manually if there isn't a script (well, not happy. In answer to others questions, it's a long document made up of multiple Word documents including illustrations that have since been edited in InDesign so sadly I can't reimport from Word easily. How do you want your endnotes be numbered? numbering to continue throughout the document How do want your endnotes be positioned?. I think I probably agree - it's probably not going to be the simplest job. Is from 2013 and is not what you need with InDesign CC 2018's brand new endnote feature.Īnd Peter Kahrel's script requires real footnotes:įootnote–endnote conversion (CC2018+) | Peter Kahrel Re: Loosing Footnotes when placing word in InDesign The endnote's texts is always a separate text frame or a couple of threaded text frames that is either positioned automatically on an extra page just after the last text frame of a story or on an extra page at the end of the document. You cannot have renumbering in a single story.Īnd you have to know, that you cannot have the endnote's texts in the same story with the text that has the endnote reference numbers. Should numbering continue throughout the document or should it restart with every story?Ī story can consist of one single text frame (or text path) or can be constructed out of many text frames threaded together. How do you want your endnotes be numbered: But if this task comes more often the amount of money you have to spend could pay off. Don't know if it's worth the effort for only 370 references. So you have to pay a scripter to do that. Such a script is not written yet, I guess.
#CONVERT FOOTNOTE TO ENDNOTE WORD 2013 MANUAL#
Hopefully someone can help, either to do everything automatically or at the very least tell me how I can batch convert a manual superscript into an inserted footnote which I can then copy and paste the reference text into.įor this task you need a custom script that is able to gather all your faked endnote numbers plus the corresponding texts and will create real endnotes in InDesign. The first one ran an error and now won't do anything and the second only works for InDesign endnotes/footnotes. I'm going to have to do some fairly major edits on the document and this would make life so much easier.ĭoes anyone know if this is possible? I've found and … but I don't think either of these will quite do what I'm looking for. All the endnotes are essentially manual entries superscript entries - though there are no other superscript entries other than the place and they are in assorted text boxes.īasically I'm looking for a way to automatically convert the superscript text and manual endnotes into the new InDesign endnotes format. I have a long document with over 370 references which I imported from a couple of Word documents.