Continuing the discussion from Importing Word or RTF Doc with Footnotes? (Version 3.0):
Hello. I’m using version 3.1.1 on Windows, and I’m having a problem somewhat related to the old post that I linked to here.
I imported an RTF with footnotes. The footnotes generally appeared as I expected. But if a footnote has a URL, the URL is added inline just before the footnote marker. I wanted to know if there is something I need to correct on my end or some other info that I’m not aware of. Thank you.
Also, if it makes a difference, I exported a markdown file to the RTF.
Hi Colette, Unfortunately no; this isn’t a problem with your settings, but looks like a bug with the importer. Until we’re able to get that fixed, the best workaround to preserve your footnotes is probably to import them as inline footnotes, merge the linked text back into the notes, and then convert them all to inspector notes if you prefer that style:
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In the Sharing tab of File > Options, under Import, tick the option near the top to Import footnotes and endnotes as inline footnotes, then click OK.
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After importing, go through the document and select the linked text that’s imported as an inline annotation (red bubble) instead of a footnote (grey shaded bubble). Right-clicking the link should select the whole thing, or you can just select all the text that should be part of the note if there were multiple links that got extracted from a single note.
- Another option is to use
Edit > Find > Find by Formatting to look for links or inline annotations. (If comments in the original document were imported as inspector comments, the only annotations will be the buggy footnote links, and that once all the broken footnotes are fixed, there won’t be any results for the search, so you’ll know you got them all.) Click Next, click on the title bar of the project window to shift focus for step 3, or use the Win+Shift+G shortcut to find next and avoid having to click back and forth between the windows.
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Toggle on the inline footnote formatting (Alt+Shift+F5).
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Once all the links are merged back into their surrounding footnote, clear all text selections and use Edit > Transformations > Convert Inline Footnotes to Inspector Footnotes for each document if you prefer the footnotes in the inspector.
Something else to watch out for with this bug is that if a link was applied to multiple words in the original document, only the first word is retaining the link on import; the rest remains blue and underlined but isn’t actually linked. To fix these, select the text that should be linked and part of the correctly-linked word, then right-click and choose Edit Link... By selecting the text like this, you should see the URL pre-filled, and clicking OK will apply it to the full selection.
I understand about the bug. Thank you for going over this workaround so thoroughly. It’s very helpful!
I imported a test file and followed your steps, and it all worked as expected.