[Peter T. Daniels]

You can convert the footnotes into endnotes in the Footnotes dialog.

You can't convert the footnotes to plain text and have them retain
their placement without lots of handwork. If you mean footnotes rather
than endnotes, keeping them at the bottom of the page would use stuff
that wouldn't survive in plain text anyway..

On Apr 26, 9:53*pm, bobcdy wrote:
I'm using word 2003 to *prepare an ebook. *The original text is a very old
(1802) science book that has many long footnotes. *When I finally set up the
ebook, it is probably best to congregate all the footnotes t the end of the
book, and it appears simplest to copy/paste all the footnotes one at a time
to that location. *Eventually I need to convert the word document to plain
utf-8 text. *On a short test doc my word 2003 crashes when I do this and I
think it is because of the footnotes. *

Is it possible to relocate the footnotes as I'd like, and is there any way
to convert the footnotes to plain non-footnote text without losing the text
and placement of the footnotes.

Thanks for the help!
Bob