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Footnotes through find/change dialogue

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7:28 am
January 10, 2012


drz4007

Greece

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Post edited 7:30 am – January 10, 2012 by drz4007


Hello. I copied and pasted text from the internet to an indesign document, and I want to change the non dynamic "footnotes" to real indesign footnotes. Can that be done through the find/change dialogue or it has to be done manually for every single footnote? The non dynamic footnotes have this form: [1], [2], [3], etc. I know I can find them with a grep code, but I don't know if I can sabstitute them with a reall footnote through the find/change dialogue. Thanx alot for your help.

8:26 am
January 10, 2012


Jongware

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Well, you can get there halfway at least.

Insert a single footnote in your text and cut it out. Then search for the footnote codes with GREP and replace with the contents of the clipboard (~c if you want to copy your text formatting as well, ~C without formatting).

You'll get a bunch of empty footnotes in which you can move the notes at the end of your text one by one.

9:41 am
January 10, 2012


drz4007

Greece

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Thanx my friend!!! You saved me a lot of work… That did (half of) the trick!