There's no simple way to do that, probably.

Can you tell where the footnote texts end (say, a manual page break inserted by the OCR software)?
You might be able to write a macro then, something like:

-- Search for the next asterisk (footnote reference in the text) and set a bookmark there,
-- Search down for the next asterisk (footnote reference at the end of the page) and select the footnote text,
-- Cut it to the clipboard,
-- Go back to the bookmark,
-- Insert a "real" footnote, and paste the footnote text.
-- Wash, rinse and repeat until you don't find any more asterisks.

Regards,
Klaus




"*(((({" wrote:
Thanks, Klaus --
But the document doesn't have any Word footnotes. It's scanned,
and the * indicates a footnote. I want to do a find/replace and
insert a footnote reference in lieu of the *.
Is that possible?

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In the last exciting episode on Tue, 11 Jan 2005 03:36:59 +0100,
"Klaus Linke" wrote:

| PS: Is it possible to have word automatically insert a footnote
| reference number, via find/replace? To replace every occurrence of **
| with a separate, continuously numbered, footnote reference?
|
|
|Hi *(((({
|
|You can change custom footnotes into auto-numbered footnotes with a macro:
|http://www.google.com/groups?threadm... hx.gbl&rnum=1
|
|Once you've done that, you can choose the numbering scheme in the footnote dialog.
|Likely, it'll already be the default 1, 2, 3 style.
|
|Regards,
|Klaus
|