[ConteDiLuna]

I am translating a book with great many footnotes. I marked them with
asterisks, and now I want to change that and mark all footnotes with
consecutive numbers. I cannot change reference marks either one by one or
automatically. Please help me, my deadline is approaching!

Thanks in advance!

Miserable translator from Serbia

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Did you insert the footnotes using Insert | Reference | Footnote, or did you
create them manually? If the former, did you use a custom reference mark or
the asterisk, dagger, double dagger series? If you created the footnotes
manually, I'm afraid you'll have to redo them (but you can cut/paste the
contents into the new footnotes), and if you inserted each one with an
asterisk as a custom mark, there's apparently no way to change that, either
(though Word deludes you into thinking there is).

I thought there might be some hope if the numbering for endnotes were set to
Continuous and you converted footnotes to endnotes and then back (after
changing the reference type for footnotes), but this doesn't seem to work
either. Perhaps someone can suggest a VBA solution.

One thing I found that I thought worked was to select one footnote reference
at a time (in the body of the document), go to Insert | Reference |
Footnote, delete the asterisk in the "Custom mark" box, select the desired
numbering, and click Apply, but now I can't get even that to work.

Probably the most efficient thing to do is to insert a new footnote (using
the desired reference mark) after each existing footnote reference. Then
view all the footnotes. Select the text from the first asterisked one and
drag it to the new (empty) numbered one. Repeat for each pair. Then go back
and delete all the asterisk references in the text. You can either work your
way through them by double-clicking the asterisk in the footnote pane or set
the Browse Object to Footnote and click your way through.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
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"ConteDiLuna" wrote in message
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I am translating a book with great many footnotes. I marked them with
asterisks, and now I want to change that and mark all footnotes with
consecutive numbers. I cannot change reference marks either one by one or
automatically. Please help me, my deadline is approaching!

Thanks in advance!

Miserable translator from Serbia

[Klaus Linke]

You could also try one of the macros from this thread:
http://groups.google.de/group/micros...dfeb0e3d19da11

But make a backup copy of your file first, in case it does not work
properly.

After you run the macro, go into the footnote dialog, choose the "1, 2,
3..." numbering, and click the "Apply" button.
If you still should have manually typed asterisks in the footnotes, you
could replace them with nothing, using "Find/Replace".

You could specify the "Footnote Text" paragraph style or the "Footnote
Reference" character style in "Find what", to avoid deleting asterisks that
might exist elsewhere.
Or use "Edit Find",
choose "More"
"Highlight all items found in: Footnotes"
then click "Find All"
Close the dialog, and hit the delete key to delete the selected asterisks.


Regards,
Klaus