footers

[themattbarnes@adobeforums.com]

I'm using ID CS. Is there a way to put footers into your text? I checked the help menu and all it talks about is importing them from Word. Surely the mighty InDesign can do this simple word processing task. Thanks,

Matt

[Guy_Smiley@adobeforums.com]

[email]themattbarnes@adobeforums.com[/email] wrote in
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> I'm using ID CS. Is there a way to put footers into your text?

Master page.

[Jonathan_Balza@adobeforums.com]

Be careful there... InDesign is a page layout program, NOT a word processor. So some features you see in Microsoft Word, etc... may not be available in InDesign, and you really can't expect them to be.

However, footers is not one of those features. You should investigate using master pages, which will allow you to insert an object that will be the same across multiple pages. You can also insert in special characters, such as page numbers, etc...

[Jonathan_Balza@adobeforums.com]

Or... I suppose I could have just typed what Guy did...

[themattbarnes@adobeforums.com]

Sorry, I meant to type footnotes, not footers. Is there a way for ID CS to do footnotes?

[Steve_Werner@adobeforums.com]

Not without third party plugins.

[themattbarnes@adobeforums.com]

Steve, elaborate please. Thanks.

[Steve_Werner@adobeforums.com]

Look at the link on this Adobe page for the products from Virginia Systems.

<http://www.adobe.com/products/plugins/indesign/main.html>

[Dominic_Hurley@adobeforums.com]

There's also a script that has been posted for footnotes that you might like to look at. I haven't tried it, but I have trialled the plugin, and it requires you to create links to each footnote, so it's not that feasible for lots of footnotes. You could always just run them along the bottoms of pages in linked frames.