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Creating styles for footnotes and endnotes

Creating styles for footnotes and endnotes - InDesign Tutorial

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Creating styles for footnotes and endnotes

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- [Instructor] If you're working with footnotes and endnotes, it's essential to use paragraph and character styles to streamline the formatting and ensure consistency throughout the document. If you are inputting the footnotes into InDesign, make an insertion point in the text, come to the type menu, insert footnote, and then you can just type away to add the footnote. But it's more likely that the footnotes are being imported with the word document or press command or control+D. When you place a word or RTF document with show import options checked, you can see you have the option of bringing in any footnotes or endnotes that are in the document. To control the formatting, come to the type menu and document footnote options where you can change the style, the start number but most importantly, I'm concerned with these options where you can create a character style to apply to the footnote number in the text. And if you don't already have a character style, you can create one. And for…

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