If the e-book material starts off with formatting such as superscripting for footnotes, it would be far easier to use Find/Replace (even in a macro) to delete them at that point - or even convert them to real footnotes (since, presumably, you have the footnote content that goes with them) - than to try to do it after the formatting has been removed. The same applies to processing any other formatted content.

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Paul Edstein
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The footnotes are regular text without any formatting whatsoever even in the original text.

In my previous note I was assuming that the macro would use find and replace to do the text deletion.

I guess all I would really need to see is a window that finds text then deletes the text if I i hit one button or searches again if I don't want to delete it. Sort of like find and replace buttons on the search and replace window.

I can write the code for incrementing the counter.