How to point a macro that highlights from a string of words at the footnotes rather than main doc

[poggyton]

I came across most of a solution to what I am trying to accomplish in this thread https://www.msofficeforums.com/word-...-document.html

Originally Posted by macropod

Hi AtaLoss,

Try something based on:

Sub HiLightList()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim StrFnd As String, Rng As Range, i As Long
StrFnd = "dog,cat,pig,horse,man"
For i = 0 To UBound(Split(StrFnd, ","))
  Set Rng = ActiveDocument.Range
  With Rng.Find
    .ClearFormatting
    .Text = Split(StrFnd, ",")(i)
    .Replacement.ClearFormatting
    .Replacement.Highlight = True
    .Replacement.Text = "^&"
    .Forward = True
    .Wrap = wdFindContinue
    .Format = True
    .MatchCase = False
    .MatchWholeWord = True
    .MatchWildcards = False
    .MatchSoundsLike = False
    .MatchAllWordForms = True
    .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
  End With
Next
Set Rng = Nothing
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

Note: Because I've set 'MatchAllWordForms = True', a Find for 'cat' or 'man' will also find & highlight 'cats' & 'men'. Apart from that, the matched words must be whole words. That means you don't need multiple expressions to capture the various forms of a given word.

The only problem I'm having is that this only highlights above the line text, not text within footnotes. I would prefer if it it only searched footnotes, but all text could also work. From my brief research I believe this has to do with the range being set, and I've been noodling around with the "Footnotes" object to try to change this with no success.

Thank you,

Poggyton