Any update on this issue? I have a 500 page document already formatted, only to find that the first half of the text's superscripts and endnotes aren't showing up. They're in my Word doc, and when I turn on "Hidden Characters" in ID, it shows that there is a superscript there, but it is not visible nor is the endnote available. So I now have to manually search for, correlate, and input 100+ footnotes into what should have been a seamless layout that only needed formatting. This is not ok in 2025. FIX IT PLEASE!

NOT FIXED. Please add the ability to convert endnotes/footnotes to static text.

I now have to individually find 117 footnote references, constantly cross-referencing to the original Word document, and make them superscript because this hasn't been fixed. A completely tedious waste of my valuable time. I pay an extraordinary amount of money for Adobe Creative Cloud. FIX IT.

Why can we STILL not convert Word-linked endnotes to static text!? I have sidebars with citations that need to be pulled out of the main text flow, and then reinserted as its own text box, but doing so renumbers ALL of the citations and my researchers get angry that their endnote numbers in sidebars are no longer in chronological order, even if they're accurately matched citation-to-endnote. They want their endnotes the way they are in Word, and I need to be able to pull sections out of the text with ALL endnote numbering and ordering in tact. HOW IS THIS NOT FIXED YET?!

The only reason I have not changed from Indesign to Affinity Publisher, is because there is no endnote or footnote function in Affinity. The way the endnotes in Indesign are still not working like in 2017, and I recreate most endnotes imported from Word manually, I might as well change and save a lot of money.

Why can we STILL not convert Word-linked endnotes to static text!? I have sidebars with citations that need to be pulled out of the main text flow, and then reinserted as its own text box, but doing so renumbers ALL of the citations and my researchers get angry that their endnote numbers in sidebars are no longer in chronological order, even if they're accurately matched citation-to-endnote. They want their endnotes the way they are in Word, and I need to be able to pull sections out of the text with ALL endnote numbering and ordering in tact. HOW IS THIS NOT FIXED YET?!

Why the hell did you guys make this change to the endnotes?! It was fine in 2017 but now, I cant get my them to appear right after the article, they're placed on a separate page? I thought you guys had designers and creatives in mind, this is NOT how we should be working. Imagine 2017 having better functionality than the later versions. At least give us the ability to turn this feature on or off.

I don't want to use a script, I don't want to manually move the endnotes box because that could cause small spacing inconsistencies.

Seems to me that Indesign 2017 is the last really good version.

FIX THIS!!

Endnote and footnote handling is a MESS!!!! in InDesign. It worked fine a couple of years ago, now it’s soooo baaaad!!!!!!

I just tested importing static endnotes in CC2020 on a Word file that did not work in CC2019. i.e. when I imported in CC2019, the endnote refs lost their superscripts if I used local overrides only for the import setting. I am happy to report that in CC2020, the endnote refs now do come in as superscripted, so that I can find them and apply the character style to preserve them.

To do this in CC2019, I have to import using Style Mapping, and map the Endnote Refs style from word to my endnote refs char style in InDesign. While this works, I don't like using style mapping unless I'm working with an editor who deliberately uses styles in a way that we have worked out in advance. Too much junk comes in otherwise.

This is NOT fixed, read the original question!!! It's ridiculous this hasn't been addressed after a year of people requesting it.

How do I get my footnotes to end up in a separate document at the end of book, instead of at the end of each chapter. Each chapter is a separate document, all linked through a indb.

Sincerely, KArin

This function used to be active in Indesign a few versions ago...

14.0.2 does not fix this issue. If I import a docx with endnotes and set the endnotes to static, the note reference numbers come in with no superscript just as they did in 14.0.1. Imported the same docx into Indesign CC2017 with references superscripted. Incopy behaves the same way.

Am I missing a new setting? Can a hot fix be released?

I’m sorry, but this problem is not fixed. The imported endnotes references are still not in superscript and they are not associated with a character style; see my posting of 15 October 2018. Your colleague Ravi Kiran said he was looking into the problem on 21 October but has not provided a solution until now. I am using ID CC 14.0.1 x64 (German); as far as I can tell, this is the present version. This has been a problem since 2017! Please help!

When was it fixed? Has it been updated after CC2019 came out? At the moment, the static endnotes feature cannot be used because it strips the superscript formatting, making it impossible to find the endnote refs and apply a character style to them. I don't see a new InDesign update available.

Trouble is Abhinav, that you - Adobe - took so so long to fix something - that was not even broken in the first place. No apology, no understanding.
Next time you introduce a new feature, it should be fully tested before being released, this 'dynamic' note thing was not.

While it's nice to be able to import footnotes and convert t endnotes, having no ability to then convert endnotes to 'static' is causing big headaches and wasting time. If text has to be cut and pasted into a separate box, it seems to delete the notes and likewise cutting and pasting endnotes completely messes things up. If I put a caption with endnote reference in it's own text box, poof, no more endnote. PLEASE FIX THIS!

Working with an imported Word document in CC 2018. Endnotes were manually typed in Word to avoid automatic numbering. To import the doc into InDesign, the numbers did not resemble endnote numbering, but appeared to be normal text. Now, in InDesign, once the numbers were superscripted (manually, not by using a style), they became automatic and are changing.

Example: endnote 81 is supposed to be 1880 census... but was Civil War Draft. I printed the endnotes, started checking them, and suddenly endnote 81 is correct, but 83 is wrong. Each time I open the document, different endnotes have changed numbers. With nearly 900 endnotes, this is a disaster.

The endnotes are in a separate document from the text. I had created a book doc to manage the book (4 sections: text, report, endnotes, and index) but have now deleted it, hoping to eliminate the problem. But I have to check all those notes.

With a copy of the InDesign doc, will try inserting the endnotes and see if I can straighten it out. But I resent having this monumental job thrown at me. This is a book for publication - the endnotes MUST be correct.

In conclusion, when the imported Word document has numbers typed in as if they are words, InDesign should recognize that automatic numbering is not desired, especially when a style is not applied. They were not to be static or dynamic endnotes - they were to be text I handled manually.

I am also noticing that Endnotes are being stripped of their character style and superscript on import when the Static Endnotes option is chosen. Hope this is fixed in the next update!

I was thrilled to find out that the newest update of InDesign (14.0 x64) gives me the possibility to import the endnotes as static endnotes. HOWEVER: the references in the text are no longer in superscript and no longer have a character style, which means I have to go through the document, find 100s of notes and format them manually, hoping I don't format the wrong numbers. This is no satisfactory solution. Can you fix this?
Until then, I guess that means back to Peter Kahrel. Why is this so difficult for you? It used to work just fine.

Dear Abhinav Agarwal,

The beta build release notes suggest that this feature is not part of the release plan (see InDesign CC Prerelease FRQ ID - ID-4203074). Please can you provide an update on the status of this request?

Regards,
Tom