Adobe Community: help needed for importing Word with notes

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1. Peter Spier,

Oct 15, 2010 3:17 AM in reply to mgladue

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ID is terrible with endnotes -- doesn't really support them AT ALL. Some of the long doc folks may have a better suggestion, but I'd say the best bet would be to split the Word file into separate documents for each section and import them separately.

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2. [Jongware],

Oct 15, 2010 4:41 AM in reply to Peter Spier

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I agree (on all points). From within ID, there is no way at all to influence how, why, and where the endnotes will appear.

Apart from splitting the Word document: maybe you can find a Word macro that "expands" the endnotes, converting them to plain text.

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3. peter at knowhowpro,

Oct 15, 2010 7:33 AM in reply to mgladue

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mgladue wrote:

Hello everyone,
I have a Word document that has about 80 short sections to it. Each section has endnotes, and the note numbering restarts with 1 at the beginning of each section. I have tried to import this document into CS3, but each time the notes appear as endnotes at the end of the document, not the end of each section. Worse, they number consecutively across sections. Quark, which also dumps notes at the end of the document, at least retains their original numbering, so I could cut-and-paste them back in place. Any information or suggestions on how to work this in INDD? Many thanks.

This Google search should find at least a few useful suggestions: InDesign word endnotes side headings script kahrel. "Kahrel" is for Peter Kahrel, who's contributed many useful InDesign scripts to the community, especially one that manipulates endnotes.

HTH

Regards,

Peter

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4. tina_h,

Feb 5, 2011 2:04 PM in reply to peter at knowhowpro

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Hi all,

I'm having the same problem, except I have 250 entries in 5 Word files. The notes for each entry need to start with 1. I'm able to get Word to do this properly by adding section breaks, but upon InDesign CS5 import, the notes are again numbered consecutively throughout the document.

I've searched through Kahrel's scripts and I've googled, but can't find a solution. Anyone?

(Please don't tell me I have to break these into 250 Word files...)

Thanks,

Tina

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5. [Jongware]-9BC6tI,

Feb 5, 2011 4:39 PM in reply to tina_h

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That's actually the one single thing that you can do in InDesign. Look in "Footnote Options" for "Restart Numbering".

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6. [Jongware]-9BC6tI,

Feb 5, 2011 4:41 PM in reply to [Jongware]-9BC6tI

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-- Wait -- that's for footnotes. The discussion above veers to & fro'. Are you talking about end notes here? (These are not an option at all in InDesign, so you're pretty much left to your own devices. If so, convert to a numbered list & set re-start numbering where applicable?)

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7. tina_h,

Feb 5, 2011 5:05 PM in reply to [Jongware]-9BC6tI

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Yes, endnotes. It would be really nice if ID would import them exactly as they are in Word. NL is an option, but it's not ideal and doesn't fix the renumbering of the footnote references. Thanks anyway!

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