Unfortunately, that recreation is part of the job for us. A large majority of the time we want the tables, fields, and cross-references removed. It is a safety net so that we know that if the document is still within the company there would be minimal change needed to be made to meet an immediate deadline.

Finding the footnotes themselves isn't too problematic once the code is run by going into Draft View and then Show Notes, but obviously being automated would be much easier.

Thank you for the reply!