Removing endnote formatting in Word 2000

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Hi all,

I'm editing a book in Word 2000 (PC). It has embedded endnotes, and the client wants to keep them, but turn them into standard text - that is, remove the 'embedding' so that the indicators are just standard text numbers in superscript, and the notes themselves are also normal text with the note number typed in 'by hand'.

Currently the only way I can see to do this is to copy the endnotes so they won't be deleted when I remove the indicators, and then go through the document changing each indicator by hand. And there are hundreds of the li'l buggers.

Does anyone have any way of achieving this at a stroke?

jashugan · Answer

Thanks for replying. It's a once and (thank Jeebus it's) done task. I'll try and explain a bit more clearly.

At the moment, the file has embedded endnotes. So it's got the little superscript numbers within the main text, and if you hold the cursor over them, a pop-up appears with the note text in. The note text has been typed in the notes window, which you bring up with View > Footnotes and endnotes. The notes are all automated so that if you remove one, it renumbers the rest of them.

What the client wants is for it to look exactly the same, but for all the automation to be removed. So the smaller numbers in the main text will appear as superscript numbers, but won't be linked to the note text or special in any other way. Just standard superscript text. The text of the notes themselves should come out of the endnotes pane and into the main document, at the end of the text, but if you cut and paste them, Word removes the reference number at the start of each note and you have to type them all back in by hand.

So as I said, the only way it seems possible is to go through the document deleting each automated endnote number and replacing it with a plain superscript number by hand. Which will take a loooooong time.

Hope that's a bit clearer... :/

Message Edited by jashugan on 03-30-2005 09:46 PM

Message Edited by jashugan on 03-30-2005 09:47 PM

abach · Answer

This would be a good challenge for me. Could you explain in, more detail, what you're trying to do? I would like to attempt to write some code that would automate this procedure.

Is this a once and done task, or do you want to be able to accomplish this while writing the document?

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple - John C. Maxwell

abach · Answer

If I were to create a procedure that would just remove the link but keep the number reference, would that be OK? Or, does your client need the number without a link, yet have all the endnotes moved to some place in the document other than the end?

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