Removing footnote codes

[Tyler]

Hi all,

I often submit manuscripts to journals where the editor wants the footnote
references and the footnote text unlinked and just 'regular' text.
Previously I have been doing this by manually typing the footnote reference
number and superscripting it, then adding the note to the end of the
document manually.

Does Word offer a feature to automatically remove the links between
footnote/endnote reference numbers and their text?

Thanks in advance,

Tyler

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Hi Tyler,

It is possible to convert notes to regular text with a macro. If you are
lucky, some expert will come along and post one. Do not despair yet.

Word does not offer an automatic feature to do this, although feel free to
email (e-mail address removed) and ask for it. MS needs to learn that Office
has an academic market.

DM

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Here's a macro to do that for endnotes, posted by Doug Robbins in response
to a similar question a few days later:

' Macro created 29/09/99 by Doug Robbins to replace endnotes with textnotes
at end of document
' to replace the endnote reference in the body of the document with a
superscript number.
'
Dim aendnote As Endnote
For Each aendnote In ActiveDocument.Endnotes
ActiveDocument.Range.InsertAfter vbCr & aendnote.Index & vbTab &
aendnote.Range
aendnote.Reference.InsertBefore "a" & aendnote.Index & "a"
Next aendnote
For Each aendnote In ActiveDocument.Endnotes
aendnote.Reference.Delete
Next aendnote
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find.Replacement.Font
.Superscript = True
End With
With Selection.Find
.Text = "(a)([0-9]{1,})(a)"
.Replacement.Text = "\2"
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = True
.MatchWildcards = True
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll