If the check fails, the script will tell you how many references and how many notes it sees. What counts as an endnote is a paragraph (in the selected paragraph style) that starts with any tabs and a number.

It checks that there are as many endnote references as there are endnotes.These must be removed, otherwise the script gets confused. In placed Word documents you often find the character style for note references applied to white space.

The script converts static endnotes to dynamic endnotes by applying the method outlined by Peter Gold, mentioned elsewhere. To run the script, press Enter/Return or click OK. If the script can't find any standard name, select the style names used in the document for the endnote text and the references. If the script finds the MS Word style names Endnote Text (a paragraph style) and Endnote Reference (a character style) in the document, these names (or a localised version) are preselected in the dialog: The script shows a dialog with two dropdowns, one with the character styles defined in the active document, the other with the document's paragraph styles. Useīefore you run the script, make sure that the endnote paragraph style has been applied to all endnotes and that that style is used for endnotes only. The script described here converts the static endnotes to dynamic ones so that footnote references can be updated automatically after adding and deleting footnotes.

This means that if you add or remove notes, you have to change note numbers and references manually. When you place a Word document with endnotes in InDesign, Word's dynamic endnotes are therefore converted to static endnotes. MS Word has dynamic footnotes and dynamic endnotes InDesign has just dynamic footnotes.

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