Comments on: Jump Between Footnote and Number

By: baruch

baruch — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:55:29 +0000

When I replace the footnote number in the text with a manual number, InDesign automatically renumbers all the rest of the footnotes in a sequence of one less footnote. Is it possible to assign new numbering sequences to separate sections? I tried the page, spread, section commands but InDesign applies the same numbers for every page, spread, section throughout the document.
Is it possible to turn ALL the automatic footnote numbering off for the whole document?

By: baruch

baruch — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:45:08 +0000

Thanks David, I guess this is how we’re going to go. But this document has nearly 1500 footnotes. I just got off my knees, forehead against floor (literally) praying that there was a better way.
Guess not, but… this does work. Thanks again!

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:25:39 +0000

Baruch, are the “blue boxes” really there? If you go into Preview mode do they still show up? Seems like if you’re going to override the automatic footnote feature, you probably just want to delete the original footnote (in the text) and replace it with a manual character.

By: baruch

baruch — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:20:51 +0000

Hello, I imported a word.doc with footnotes, then cut and paste a few footnotes into a different textbox. But then it leaves small blue boxes at the bottom of the original footnotes. Is it possible to delete these boxes or shrink them? From reading the above it doesn’t seem as there is a way to cut and paste these boxes elsewhere?
Any ideas, help would be most gratefully appreciated. Thanks.

By: janeq

janeq — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:38:53 +0000

hi margo, I am trying to do exactly the same thing, and from reading the previous replies on this page, it seems its impossible - annoying or what!

By: margo

margo — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:15:38 +0000

Hi Everyone! I’m importing text with footnotes from Word into InDesign CS2. I tried reformatting footnotes by going to Type > Document Footnote Options. However, I need the footnotes to be in their own textbox so that I can move them around the page / place them on the following page etc. Is there a way to do that in CS2 or CS3? thanks in advance.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:19:00 +0000

Music, I agree: I never understood Jon’s explanation. But it sounded good!

By: music

music — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:10:27 +0000

What do you mean ?

By: Jon Hurley

Jon Hurley — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:56:02 +0000

There is a workaround to that problem of footnotes not staddling a number of columns. Say you have a 2 column document and the footnote is appearing at the bottom of the second column, then just stretch that column across the whole page and apply a text wrap to the other column. Obviously you have to make the first column shorter than the second and make the right offset the same as the gutter.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:30:07 +0000

Robert, I have never seen a footnote appear on the column before the reference, like you’re describing. I wonder if the Split Footnote feature (in the Layout tab of the Type > Document Footnote Options feature) would help.