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' footnotes' numbers are enclosed in characters other than square brackets ' Change '' on the next line to whatever is appropriate if the selected The macro shows its progress on the status bar.ĭim i As Long, j As Long, k As Long, l As Long, FtRng As Range If you have any multi-paragraph footnotes, you can get around that issue by changing their internal paragraph markers to line feeds (i.e. each footnote consists of a single paragraph.If not, you can simply change it in the line: you’ll be using the 'Footnote Text' style footnotes.If the footnotes are scattered throughout the document, rather than at the end, for example, the code will process the selected footnote text on each page Comments in the code indicate where to make changes to suit other scenarios. The selected range contains the footnotes to be converted, with the first footnote number being, at most, enclosed in square brackets, thus, followed by a space.The following macro processes such footnotes in a selected range, turning them into 'proper' Word footnotes, retaining their formatting (eg bold/italic/underline). When documents with footnotes are converted to Word from other programs, the footnotes may come across as plain text, with the footnote links simply showing as superscripted numbers or numbers enclosed in brackets.
