

Note that the endnotes text frame can be copied- or cut-and-pasted without losing any live links. When you have a spot ready to go, find your endnotes text frame (it might still be on the pasteboard of page 2 or 4), and cut-and-paste it to the appropriate page in your back matter. When you’ve finished typesetting your book, you’ll create an appropriate page or pages in the back matter for your endnotes. (The style names shown below are the defaults imported from Word.) Then click OK to apply all the styles to your endnotes. Fill out the box as shown below, specifying paragraph and character styles where indicated. Once your styles are set up, click Type > Document Endnote Options to open your Endnote Options dialog box. If you don’t see any endnote styles in your styles panels, create them yourself (or use our specs on pages 85 and 250 of BDMS). If your endnotes were imported into InDesign from Word, you’ll notice three default styles in your panels: Endnote Title and Endnote Text paragraph styles, and Endnote Reference character style. You can add or remove endnotes without messing up your numbering system! Click To Tweet Applying styles to InDesign endnotes

Each endnote is enclosed in colored brackets.Note the following about the endnotes text and text frame:

Here’s what your InDesign endnotes text frame will look like: You’ll be able to position it appropriately in your book later on. Before flowing the rest of your manuscript into your pages, drag your endnotes text frame onto the pasteboard for now. If your document has one page to start with, InDesign will place the endnotes text frame on a new page 2 if your document starts with three pages (following our example on page 34, BDMS), then InDesign will place the endnotes text frame on a new page 4. InDesign will place a new, separate text frame containing your endnotes on a new page following any existing pages. When you click OK and then place your text on the first page of your InDesign document, you’ll see the first page of your manuscript flow onto that page. When you place your document in InDesign, make sure you first check Show Import Options in the Place dialog box (see right), and then check Endnotes in your Import Options dialog box as shown below (see pages 44-45, Book Design Made Simple). Now we have the same flexibility with endnotes! Importing endnotes into InDesign 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.
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Adobe’s 2018 update for InDesign includes a great new feature for book designers- live InDesign endnotes.
