A final question -- is it possible to use string manipulation on the selected text before putting it in the footnote? The reason I ask is this: quite often, I have to select a word or phrase with the punctuation that follows, because I want the footnote reference number to appear immediately after the punctuation. However, I don't want the punctuation to appear in the text when it is copied to the footnote -- I just want that unitalicised colon instead. So, I wondered whether there is a way to check the Selection.Text to see if there is a final punctuation, and if there is, to ignore that and copy the rest. Thanks.