Help Needed: Pages ’08 Borks Endnotes When Exporting to Word
I’m losing my mind. I’ve spent the last two evenings trying to get a 300-page document written in Apple’s Pages ’08 word processor to export properly to Word format.
The bulk of the document exports OK, but it screws up hundreds of endnotes: the markers jump to the wrong endnotes. I’ve tried everything I can think of — exporting to PDF (which can’t track changes) or RTF (which strips the endnote markers).
Anyone got any ideas?
UPDATE: Many thanks for all the suggestions. I eventually found a solution. There were several problems with the endnote markers in the Pages document. The most serious was a missing endnote marker right at the beginning of the 300-page document, which caused all the subsequent endnotes markers to point to the wrong records. Trouble is, the problem only manifested itself when I exported to Word. The missing marker wasn’t apparent in the Pages document — it only showed up after exporting to Word! And no matter what I tried, I could not get rid of that screwy marker. So here’s what I did:
1. Convert all the endnotes to footnotes.
2. Cut and paste the document, one chapter at a time, to separate Pages documents.
3. Export each Pages document to Word, one at a time, carefully checking that all the endnote markers work.
4. Reassemble from the separate chapters in Word.
Miraculously, it worked. Why? No idea. Note: Exporting the Pages as a PDF works better than exporting to Word for preserving endnotes. All the endnotes are present and correct, but you can no longer track changes.
Again, many thanks for the suggestions.
Leander Kahney is the editor and publisher of Cult of Mac, and author of three books about technology culture: 
