searching in footnotes in Word 2002

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How can you search a document so that you also search within footnotes?
Currently I can search for a word and find it anywhere in the document but if
that same word is located in a footnote, it skips it altogether. Is there a
way to do this?
 
It's not really skipping the footnotes. It will search all the main text,
and then go back and search the footnotes.

If you put the cursor in the notes, it will start searching there, and then
move onto the main text (or maybe stop, I forgot).
 
Yes, but then it only searches within the footnotes and not the text. I want
to be able to search at the beginning of the document and have it find the
next word either in the text or footnote. I need to go in order of where the
word is found.
 
Well, you can't have it that way. Footnotes are in a different "layer," and
Word by default searches the entire document text first, then the footnotes.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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If you explain what you are trying to do, and why you need it to go in
order, we might be able to suggest something that would make it easier. But
Word will *not* work the way you want it to.
 
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