Endnotes - superscript to regular font

Mitra,

Thanks, but I seem to be missing something. I had created such a Character Style in ID CS, but have to apply it individually to each number/space which is incredibly time consuming. If I apply it to the whole endnote section I loose my italicized text, since it requires me to choose Roman/Italics, etc. I looked at "search and replace" in the story editor but cannot find superscript listed, though my Endnote Reference# Character Style is listed.

Hope you can help me.

Louis Andrews
Augusta GA USA

Having created the character style, redefine the paragraph style to apply the character style as a nested style up to the first letter.

Dave

Dave,

My inexperience is showing. Following your suggestion, I added a nested style to my Endnote Paragraph Style as follows: "Endnote Reference# (my Character Style) up to 1 letters," but it made no difference. I still seem to be missing something. Hope you can help.

Louis Andrews
Augusta GA USA

You may need to now click in each of those paragraphs (holding down the alt key) to reassert the paragraph style and lose the local styling, I'm afraid. However, if you have a series of consecutive such paragraphs, you can do the lot at one fell swoop.

Dave

I blocked a section of the endnote text and changed it to blockquote Paragraph Style and then back to Endnote Paragraph Style with no change.
For some reason none of the ALT commands work with my keyboard, but the above should have had the same effect.
Sorry to be such a pain, but this is essential as I have two manuscripts with several thousand endnotes.

Louis Andrews
Augusta GA USA

How is the formatting applied to the endnote characters in the first place? I gather that Word does it and you imported from Word.

Does Word use a character style for this? If so, all you actually ever needed to do was redefine that.

Dave

Dave,

Thanks for your patience.

I created the Endnote Paragraph Style (and the Character Style which is now embedded per your suggestion) in InDesign CS, then apply it to the Endnote section while in the Story Editor, though I have also done it in the Layout Editor.

All Word styles get deleted from the Paragraph Style pallet. I preface all InDesign CS Paragraph Styles with a character (W-Endnote Style, W-Body Text Style, etc.) so they can be differentiated. All Paragraph Styles without a leading "W" gets deleted to maintain conformity.
The problem in Word is that all embedded Endnote Reference#s are superscripted and there is no way to change that in Word prior to placing it in ID CS.

Louis Andrews
Augusta GA USA

Dave,

Thanks for the help. I believe I have found a solution - at least it works on two essays that I tried it on. I placed the essay from Word into ID CS and formatted the endnote section with the W-Endnote Paragraph Style. Without deleting any styles, I checked the Character Style Palette. There is an endnote reference style there which I viewed. It was TNR Roman 12pt, Superscript. I then used the Find/Change:Format to change that to my W-Endnote Character Style. It works! Now I just need to re-Place all my chapters, format the endnote sections, then cut and past them over the existing ones that I have been working on.

Thanks,

Louis Andrews
Augusta GA USA