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Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated March 10, 2018)
This tip applies to Word 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003
If you don't know where a footnote or endnote reference is located in your document, you can use Word's powerful searching capabilities to find automatic footnote references. To search for a footnote, follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Find tab of the Find and Replace dialog box.
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2020-10-06 04:06:54
g
Dan, I don't understand exactly what your issue is, but perhaps the Word function to convert your endnotes to footnotes would help?
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2020-10-05 14:51:24
Dan Appel
Allen,
I am trying to format a very long document I have written for Kindle via Word (Which is what their Kindle Create prefers.) In order to do that, I had to get a file from InDesign to Word. The recommendation from Adobe is to save it as a PDF and then import the PDF into Word. That seemed to work, but as I have attempted to then format the document and to turn the endnotes into the hyperlinks Kindle wants for footnotes, I have discovered that Word does not recognize the Endnote numbers so I have no way to connect them. I have tried almost every search configuration I can think of or discover, and Word will just not find/recognize them.I have almost 1000 endnotes. To go through and find where they all are in the document and then re-enter them would be a herculean task.
Is there any way I can solve this dilemma?
Thank you in advance for your help.
Sincerely,
Dan M. Appel
2019-09-05 09:09:17
g
Hi!
If I launch a Find operation for ^f, it finds BOTH footnote references within the main body AND footnote numbers at the bottom of the pages .
How can I find only either of the two?
Thank you!
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