Adobe’s 2018 update for InDesign includes a great new feature for book designers—live 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…]
Text Frames
This is a test introduction to the Text Frames archive, where you'll find links to all the information about text frames on the Book Design Made Simple website, book, videos, and blog.
Footnotes: an alternate typesetting method
If your book has footnotes, you’re probably using InDesign’s automatic 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 footnotes manually in print books. In this blog post, I’ll explain the layout method that we both used—it still works perfectly.
Want to import from Excel into InDesign?
Recently we’ve been asked how to import an Excel spreadsheet into InDesign. In Book Design Made Simple we walk you through importing tables from Word, but importing a spreadsheet from Excel is a bit different so we’ll walk you through it here. And, because spreadsheets and tables rarely import into InDesign looking like they did in Excel and Word, we’ll give you a few tips on the easiest way to get started. [Read more…]
