Convert Footnotes to Hard Text ???

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<*((((><{ - 14 Jan 2005 02:11 GMT

I've got a long document with a bazillion footnotes. I'd like to
convert them to hard-coded text. How do I do that?

<*((((><{
Fishy@Ocean.Net

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Klaus Linke - 14 Jan 2005 16:21 GMT

> I've got a long document with a bazillion footnotes. I'd like to
> convert them to hard-coded text. How do I do that?
>
> <*((((><{
> Fishy@Ocean.Net

Hi <*((((><{

Below's the macro I have been using...
Maybe you can improve on it a bit, or adapt it to your needs.

Greetings,
Klaus

Sub footnotestrip()
Dim afootnote As Footnote
Dim NumberOfFootnotes As Integer
Dim i As Integer
Dim aFootnoteReference As String
Dim aFootnoteRefTag As String
NumberOfFootnotes = ActiveDocument.Footnotes.Count
For i = NumberOfFootnotes To 1 Step -1
Set afootnote = ActiveDocument.Footnotes(i)
afootnote.Range.Select
Selection.MoveStartWhile Cset:=" " & Chr(9)
Selection.Cut
aFootnoteReference = afootnote.Reference.Text
Select Case aFootnoteReference
Case Chr(2)
aFootnoteRefTag = "<FNZ>"
Case "*"
aFootnoteRefTag = "<FNS>"
Case Else
aFootnoteRefTag = "<FNRef>" _
& aFootnoteReference & "</FNRef>"
End Select
afootnote.Reference.Select
If afootnote.Reference.Text = Chr(40) Then
With Dialogs(wdDialogInsertSymbol)
aFootnoteRefTag = _
"<FNSym," & .Font & "," _
& .CharNum & ">"
End With
End If
afootnote.Delete
Selection.InsertBefore "<FN>" _
& aFootnoteRefTag
Selection.Collapse (wdCollapseEnd)
Selection.Paste
Selection.InsertAfter "</FN>"
Next i
End Sub

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<*((((><{ - 18 Jan 2005 01:56 GMT

Thanks, Klaus -- I'll give it a try.

<*((((><{
Fishy@Ocean.Net

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|> I've got a long document with a bazillion footnotes. I'd like to
|> convert them to hard-coded text. How do I do that?
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Doug Robbins - 19 Jan 2005 02:41 GMT

The following would also work for footnotes, but it places them at the end
of the document, not at the foot of each page.

' 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

> Thanks, Klaus -- I'll give it a try.
>
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