philipt18

Using your trick I searched for my footnote style, and there are 1233 results, so it looks like that's how many footnotes I have.

Another reason I'd like to see some stats on footnotes, but I'm currently estimating that I have over 1200 footnotes in the book. So if only a few dozen are invisible that's not so bad percentage-wise, but it's still impossible for me to publish the book. I was hoping maybe there was something I could do with layer visibility, but I tried that, and couldn't get it to work. It's of course quite difficult to fiddle with the footnote text without being able to see it. Hoping this bug gets fixed sooner rather than later...

How do you set the tab settings for all Footnotes?

@MikeTO@Dan C@Hangman Is there a way to get the invisible footnotes to show up? I can see the footnote layers that are invisible on the page? Is there something I can do to make them visible? I'm weeks from being ready to publish my book, but obviously cannot do so with missing footnotes. Of course I'd like the other footnote problems like not sticking to the bottom of the frame to be fixed, but I can't even review the document when I can't see dozens of the footnotes. Thanks.

So should someone post this in the bug group?

Got it, in the Custom Footnotes tab. I did notice something odd. Not sure if it's a bug or not, but if you change the # to an * and then click the Superscript checkbox, the * goes back to a #. If you click into a different field first, and then click the Superscript checkbox, it doesn't change.

Thank you. How do you add an asterisk to the Number Text field?

I am annotating a book that already has some footnotes. Not many, I think 9, but I want to differentiate them from my own footnotes (of which there are over 1200). In the book, the 9 footnotes use an *, and then have the note at the bottom of the page, but there's no simple way to add those and my numbered footnotes. One solution I came up with was to have a different master page for pages with footnotes, and make the text block a bit smaller, with a separate text block on the bottom to put the original footnote. My footnotes then appear automatically and the original one shows up below it. The problem with this is that the original footnote is now below my footnotes, so it's separated from the original text. That's kind of backwards. It would make it harder for the reader to understand that those note were written by the original author. Another solution would be to stop and start the numbering of the footnotes, and insert an * in between the numbered footnotes. This, however, would mean the * is in the middle of my footnotes, and it's a very complicated way to do it, and would likely break if any changes needed to be made. I'd really like to find a simple solution that allowed me to insert the footnote below the text, didn't mess up the flow, and allowed my footnotes to be shown below the original footnote. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks. He hasn't made recent changes to it, so I'm beginning to wonder about it. I've made some suggestions, and I guess I'll add these in case he goes back to work on it eventually. Won't help me for this book, however.

Would love to see better reviewing of footnotes implemented. I suggested this last year (post link below) and now that I need to go through over 1200 footnotes and fix all the formatting, this would make it so much easier.

As I just had to reset my 1200+ footnotes to the default formatting, which of course wiped out any modifications such as italics, I'd really really like to see this feature implemented for reviewing footnotes.

Thanks, I figure that out. So odd. It would be great if there was a way to see which footnotes have been customized. One side-effect of resetting all the footnotes to Default is that any text that is modified, such as adding Italics, is reset as well. So now I need to go through my 1200+ footnotes and fix all the formatting.

I was wondering why the first tab was needed, so I removed it, and was able to do so without it, saving a point of space (note the space between the left of the frame and the 8 of the first footnote). For reasons I don't understand I couldn't get it below 7 pts. If I went to 6pts, the text moved back in the other direction. I also wanted to see if I could right-align the numbers so they would line up even with the text, but you can only specify a Character Style, not a Paragraph Style for the Number style. If you have any ideas on how to do that, that would be great.