OK, so you may like to ask OUP if they have a utility that does this
automatically for you.
Because in Word, the Footnote Reference Number IS the footnote. If you
"Unlink it" you delete the footnote object completely: both the number and
the text go away.
As I said, you can make a VBA routine to do this, but you need to find a
copy of Word that will run VBA.
A quicker method might be this:
1) Convert the footnotes to endnotes and save.
2) Save a copy of the document as Text Only
3) Open the Text Only version of the document.
4) Save it as a Word document.
5) Re-apply your formatting styles.
That will accomplish the effect, and will be a lot quicker than other
methods.
Hope this helps
Thanks for the responses - I was planning to copy the text and keep it in a
set of endnotes. Simply converting the footnotes to endnotes does not do the
trick - I know how to do that.
Basically, I want to unlink the footnote (or endnote) number from the footnote
(or endnote) text. This may seem random, but Oxford University Press requires
that manuscripts be submitted this way (believe it or not). They actually
suggest making the footnotes with superscripts. I can't imagine doing that as
I write, but apparently I will have to do the conversion. I will also check in
with them, because it seems that all authors have to do this.
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