I have been sent a .docx which I have opened in Pages 5.5.1. I need to insert all the text into an Indesign file. Aside from not being able to copy the text and paste it into InDesign without losing all the paras (I have worked around that by pasting it into TextEdit first), there are endnotes which I wish to copy, with their reference numbers, but I can't select them. Is there a way to export or paste these into the TextEdit file?
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
It really is an Indesign/Word problem beyond the scope and abilities of us on this forum.
Endnotes will always be an exceptional text because it is dynamically positioned in the text, and needs to be dynamically linked in Indesign as well.
Have you tried opening the Word file in either MsWord or LibreOffice and exporting it to rtf?
I googled this for you:
http://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/footnotes.html
http://ask.metafilter.com/265850/InDesign-endotes-Still-no-solution
http://www.wikihow.com/Add-Footnotes-in-InDesign
http://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/foot_to_endnote.html
It appears there are problems with Indesign and endnotes, chase the details down.
Peter
Indesign will import the .docx directly.
Why are you trying to cut and paste from Pages?
Peter
Thanks for replying. Of course I tried placing the .docx first. For some reason, only the headings are showing, but no text (must be something to do with the way the original Word file was formatted, not by me). But it didn't show the endnotes anyway. Would it normally do so?
So then I tried copying text from Pages (which I have done in the past from earlier versions). When I paste it in InDesign ALL the formatting, including all paras and line breaks, have disappeared. If I save it as a .txt and try to place that, it retains the paras but loses all other formatting. It does place the endnotes but has inserted some strange letters and symbols and has lost its numbering. If I copy the contents from the .docx and paste it into a TextEdit file, then save that as a .rtf, that all looks great when placed in InDesign, except that it excludes the endnotes as I wasn't able to copy them, so that's no good either. I have tried every other permutation I can think of.
I have even tried making a pdf of the .docx, which does show the endnotes, selecting them (which it allows me to do) then copying that text and pasting it into InDesign. But it doesn't paste them. I think that might be an InDesign problem. Incidentally, I have tried changing the clipboard handling preferences in InDesign.
But my original question is really: how can I turn these endnotes into 'ordinary' text, so they behave like text and can be copied. Although I only have about a dozen endnotes in this document, it is the first in a series of 18 documents which will be similar, so I need to find out how to get around this, short of typing them all out again, which is mad.
Many thanks for your very full and helpful reply. But I would still like to know if it is possible to select and copy endnotes from Pages as one chunk of text, and be able to paste them anywhere (forgetting InDesign, for the moment).
You will be doing what I would do, expriment.
You can decide the positioning of footnotes/endnotes so can gather them all to be a the back of a document to see if you can select export them as one.
From last time I tried I think they were still in individual chunks.
Peter
Thanks Peter. Disappointing that there isn't a simple answer. I never realised it would be difficult or impossible to do, I just thought I didn't know how myself. Will just have to find a workaround as the endnotes all appear to be individual items in Pages and can't be selected as one chunk.
Can I copy or export endnotes?
