Footnotes in Tables…

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    • #95643
      Tsami Bray
      Participant

      Hello

      On doing some research, this problem has been around since @ 2006. It is so frustrating not to be able to put footnotes in tables. As it’s so difficult to contact Adobe, is there anyway that we can lobby them to fix this issue. If Word can do it, why not InDesign?

    • #95644
      Ian Peters
      Member

      i’m interested in a fix too

    • #95646

      Yes, it is a long-standing, gaping hole in ID’s capabilites, much discussed and frequently requested. Adobe’s bug report / wish list is here: <https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html&gt; ; you could add your complaints to those of others. If you are active on Twitter, a series of tweets with a creative use of hashtags might serve to bring new attention to the issue. Fresh voices can be a help ; some of us have been complaining about these faults for so long that I’m sure the InDesign team has a special box labelled ‘Grumply Old Malcontents’.

      On the other hand, my layman’s impression is that coding notes for tables is not a trivial task because of the way content is contained in cells. <GOM>My opinion, for what it’s worth, is that the implementation of tables in ID is fundamentally flawed,</GOM> but that’s another discussion.

      And, I think I recall hearing that Adobe would be addressing this fairly soon; can’t remember the source at the moment.

    • #95647

      Sorry about the URL ; cut ‘&gt’ from the end. And, you will probably get more response if you post this to the general discussion. Search there as well and see Peter Kahrel’s article in Indesign Magazine 95 Mar 2017 for discussion and some work-arounds.

    • #95710
      Charlotte Mrzygod
      Participant

      I added my request too! This would be very helpful for me as well.

    • #95763
      Tsami Bray
      Participant

      Thanks very much Ian, Lindsey and Charlotte. I have actually requested this before from Adobe, but still to no avail! Lindsey, I know the work arounds (thanks) but I am currently working on a document that has over 40 footnotes and it’s hard to keep up with changing them in the tables. It takes so much time to check the document and embarrassing if I’ve missed one. Anyway, fingers crossed.

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