Footnotes Indesign

Hi!
I have a problem with the footnotes. When i create a footnote in the text that footnote appears automatically at the end of the page but i want that footnotes appears at the end of the book, in other chapter.
Somebody knows how can i do that automatically? i really need to do that...
If is not possible do that i must do this manually and i´m gonna lose a lot of time...
tank you all!
ps-sorry my english...

Don't worry, your English is fine!
You don't mention the version of InDesign, and that's quite important here. There are scripts to convert footnotes to endnotes, but they depend highly on that version. In earlier versions (CS2 -- the first with footnotes -- and CS3), you can only convert them to static text: if you insert or delete a note, you have to rebuild the notes section.
For CS4, it's possible to convert them to dynamic endnotes instead. A recent script from Peter Kahrel does that: see http://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/dynamic_endnotes.html

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