It's a surprise now to have to start doing it again. In the Location section of the Footnote and Endnote menu, click the Convert button. This is particularly useful for a document with many notes. This option allows you to change all the footnotes and endnotes at once. Alternatively, you can convert all your footnotes to endnotes, and vice versa. are too lengthy or numerous to be inserted. Convert footnotes to endnotes and vice versa. While I'm really grateful to Adobe for incorporating Peter Karel's script into InDesign, can't it include a script to retain local formatting? We stopped needing to apply character-level style tags years ago. Endnotes are explanations, comments, or references that are used instead of footnotes when the explanations, etc. So I had to go back to the old file, apply character style tags for all italics and small caps, figure out all the changes I had made in the interim (by exporting the text, and running Compare in Word, then manually re-doing all the changes), re-convert all the endnotes back to footnotes, cut the manuscript up into individual chapters, re-paste them all into separate stories, re-convert all the footnotes back to endnotes, type in all the chapter title subheads into the endnotes. Let us start: a) convert all footnotes to endnotes Right click on a footnote and say convert then you can convert from footnotes to endnotes and vice-versa. ) and it was then the editor that noticed that the italics had disappeared. However, when writing the footnotes, think about the fact they will become actual references later on add text as you are required for your explicit referencing style. after many lost hours.Īnother project, the italics disappeared when, because after the first page draft, the client wanted the endnotes to start at 1 at the beginning of each chapter, I had to convert the endnotes back to footnotes, copy/paste out each chapter as separate stories, then re-convert the footnotes back to endnotes, shipped the job out (over 400 pages.
and finally noticed that all the italics were gone!! Start again. So then I had to convert the endnotes back to footnotes, tried exporting. Footnotes move to the bottom of the page. Tap Type, then choose the type of notes you want. Blue boxes appear around all the notes in the document. To see all your footnotes or endnotes at once, click View > Draft, and then click References > Show Notes. To convert a group of footnotes or endnotes, select them before you Control + Click. But when I needed to export the content as Word manuscript, the export didn't include the endnotes. Because a document can contain only one type of note, all notes in the document are changed when you convert a note from one type to another. Inserting references into footnotes/endnotes in word Click in the Word document at the location for your footnote reference Click on the References tab on the. To change an endnote to a footnote, Control + Click the endnote text and click Convert to Footnote.
Right click on the individual note and select Convert to Endnote or Convert to Footnote from the shortcut menu. The first conversion from footnotes to endotes, the italics seemed fine. Or, select the Next Footnote down arrow and choose an option from the drop-down menu: Next Footnote, Previous Footnote, Next Endnote, or Previous Endnote. I too have had painful experiences with this.