So I am trying to clean up and format a 450 page book containing 1300 footnotes. Normally I would do this in QuarkXPress, but time contraints mean I have to just clean it up in word and create a PDF for print.

All footnotes are formatted as #[space]Footnote text.

I need it to be #.[tab]Footnote text.

Trying to use the insert footnote dialogue to format the numbering causes Word to insert new footnote numbers in addition to the ones already there.

Is there any way to do a search for and replace using some sort of tag? LIke searching for "[paragraph break][footnote number][space]" and replacing it with "[paragraph break][footnote number].[tab]"?

Best regards
Geir Rosset
Oslo Norway