Creating a "Table of Footnotes"

[Kevin Walton]

Hi

I have a large document with a hundred or so footnotes in, set to
appear at the bottom of each page. I also want these footnotes to
appear in a chapter near the end of the document.

So, I did Insert > Reference > Index & Tables, Table of Figures Tab,
Options, select Style "Footnote Text", but get the error "Error! No
table of figures entries found".

A post to microsoft.public.word.tables
(reveals that
this is not possible as "Word cannot "see" text in footnotes for the
purpose of TOC/TOF creation", and suggests I ask here for some help
with a Macro solution.

So, is there an easy way on a one-off basis (I don't need it to
automatically update or anything) to grab all footnote text and paste
it at a specific (ie current cursor) location?

Thanks in advance.
Kev

 

[Jezebel]

You don't need a macro --

1. Make a copy of your document.
2. In the copy, display the Reference > Footnotes dialog. Click Convert, to
convert the footnotes to endnotes.
3. Select the entire set of endnotes and copy.
4. Switch back to your original document and paste.
5. Use Find and Replace to remove the numbering -- you'll see that they've
all ended up with "1" as the number, so just remove "1 " from the start of
each paragraph.
6. Use List numbering to renumber them correctly.

 

[Kevin Walton]

Sorted, Thanks!

You don't need a macro --

1. Make a copy of your document.
2. In the copy, display the Reference > Footnotes dialog. Click Convert, to
convert the footnotes to endnotes.
3. Select the entire set of endnotes and copy.
4. Switch back to your original document and paste.
5. Use Find and Replace to remove the numbering -- you'll see that they've
all ended up with "1" as the number, so just remove "1 " from the start of
each paragraph.
6. Use List numbering to renumber them correctly.