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Footnotes and Endnotes


Below you'll find links to all the information about footnotes and endnotes that’s available on our website, book, videos, and blog.

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Below are all the blog posts tagged with footnotes and endnotes, starting with the most recent post.

InDesign Book feature: the good, the bad, and the ugly

December 10, 2018 By Fiona Raven 7 Comments

InDesign book featureThe InDesign Book feature provides a great way to combine smaller InDesign files into one larger Book file. It’s easy to use, and you’ll find our step-by-step guide to using the Book feature here. But, after using the InDesign Book feature for Book Design Made Simple and numerous other book projects, we’ve discovered that it’s not perfect—so forewarned is forearmed! [Read more…]

Filed Under: InDesign Tagged With: Book feature, contents, footnotes/endnotes, InDesign updates

InDesign endnotes go live in CC2018

November 6, 2017 By Fiona Raven 23 Comments

CC 2018 InDesign Updates - InDesign endnotes.Adobe’s 2018 update for InDesign includes a great new feature for book designers—live InDesign endnotes. Until now, footnotes and endnotes could be imported from Word to InDesign, but only footnotes continued to be live and linked, allowing us to insert and delete them without messing up the numbering system. Now we have the same flexibility with endnotes! [Read more…]

Filed Under: InDesign Tagged With: contents, footnotes/endnotes, InDesign updates, paragraph styles, text frames

InDesign footnotes: an alternate typesetting method

October 8, 2017 By Glenna Collett 18 Comments

asterisks for InDesign footnotesIf your book has footnotes, you’re probably using automatic InDesign footnotes in your layout. And that’s great! But what if you compiled your footnotes in a separate Word document or didn’t use the automatic footnote feature in Word or InDesign?

Before Word and InDesign added their automatic footnote features, and well before Fiona and I met each other, we both invented a way—interestingly, the same way—to lay out InDesign footnotes manually for print books. In this blog post, I’ll explain the layout method that we both used—it still works perfectly.

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Filed Under: InDesign Tagged With: footnotes/endnotes, paragraph styles, text frames, typesetting

Adobe Creative Cloud 2017

December 12, 2016 By Glenna Collett 2 Comments

cube with CC2017 spelled outIn early November, we all woke up to find Adobe Creative Cloud waiting to be updated. What—again? Well, it turns out that this update, CC 2017, does provide some InDesign enhancements that might help you work more effectively and improve your design. We’ll discuss the significant ones here. [Read more…]

Filed Under: InDesign Tagged With: footnotes/endnotes, InDesign updates, typesetting

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