Removing footnote codes

T

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
 
D

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 [email protected] and ask for it. MS needs to learn that Office
has an academic market. :)

DM
 
D

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
 
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