Un-Embedding Footnotes and Endnotes

[Jeff Gerke]

This is a suggestion and a request for future versions of
Word.

I work at a publishing company. Many authors use the
Footnote/Endnote feature of Word to cite their material.
However, when it comes time to send the manuscript off for
production, we have to go through and manually un-embed
all those notes. We have to insert superscript numbers,
create an endnotes page, do another superscript, and paste
in the citation. One note at a time.

How much easier it would be to simply have an Un-embed
feature in Word. I click the feature and boom, all of
those embedded notes are now unembedded. All superscript
numbers are there. An endnotes page is there with all my
notes.

Doable?

Jeff

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP - DELETE UPPERCASE CHARACT]

Here's a macro that does it:

' 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


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Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Count me in for that viewpoint. Please send your feedback to
(e-mail address removed). I doubt they will fix anything, since they generally
overlook the author/academic market, but hey, might as well put in an
official complaint. Some one else just asked how to do that last week, on
this NG, but so far does not have an answer.

But Doug has given you a macro, so you're in luck. Doug, I hope you don't
mind if I repost your macro under the last person who asked this question.

DM

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP - DELETE UPPERCASE CHARACT]

Hi Dayo,

No, I don't mind.

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Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the
benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded
directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis.

Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

May I suggest that this would be a good article for the Word FAQ site?
Perhaps you and Dayo could collaborate on it?



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