Word cannot convert footnote references or endnote references to normal text and keep the footnotes or endnotes intact. Although a macro could be used to preserve any endnote content - since they only appear at the end of the relevant Sections - doing the same for footnotes is fraught with difficulty. The simplest way to achieve such an outcome is to save the document as a PDF, then reimport the PDF into Word.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]