Replacing text with footnote.

[Guest]

I'm using Word 2003 under XP Home.

I have many documents in which the footnotes are simply indicated in the
text by brackets enclosing a number, e.g {1}. The endnotes are then listed at
the bottom of the text. I would like to convert these all to footnotes. This
requires me to manually replace each number with a footnote marker, and then
manually copy/paste the right text in.

The find/replace tool doesn't allow me to replace with ^f, the footnote
marker (though you can "find" it.)

Some of these papers have 200+ footnotes. Is there a way, perhaps a macro or
a script (which I can't write, but I know what they are) to replace these
numbers with footnote markers?

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?QmVu?=,

Under Insert/References/Footnote you can click the Convert button and choose to
convert all Endnotes to Footnotes

I'm using Word 2003 under XP Home.

I have many documents in which the footnotes are simply indicated in the
text by brackets enclosing a number, e.g {1}. The endnotes are then listed at
the bottom of the text. I would like to convert these all to footnotes. This
requires me to manually replace each number with a footnote marker, and then
manually copy/paste the right text in.

The find/replace tool doesn't allow me to replace with ^f, the footnote
marker (though you can "find" it.)

Some of these papers have 200+ footnotes. Is there a way, perhaps a macro or
a script (which I can't write, but I know what they are) to replace these
numbers with footnote markers?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Guest]

These are not formatted. What I've been trying to do is find/replace so they
can be formatted and thus manipulated, as you suggest. The problem is not
converting endnotes to footnotes and vice versa, the problem is converting
text not marked as a footnote (^f) to a footnote.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Doug Robbins has posted code for the opposite situation....You might want to
post in microsoft.public.word.vba.beginners and see if anyone wants to write
the code for you (or has already written it), if you get no response here.
Depending on how much effort they put into the macro, you might still have
to manually copy the text of each note into the appropriate footnote, but
it'd still be a lot faster, especially using Normal View and New Window in
the doc.

You are right that a fairly simple macro could find the number, delete it,
insert a footnote, then repeat. It seems a bit trickier to me to get the
macro to paste in the appropriate text, and you'd want to make sure the doc
doesn't use any references multiple times, cause getting the macro to insure
that the footnote number matches the old number in brackets seems like it
would be more difficult (so run it on a copy). I can picture it, but can't
write it. Ask the VBA gurus in the other group.

DM