Extracting a single word preceding a footnote seems fairly meaningless, as footnotes typically relate to rather more than just the last preceding word. A simple way of copying all footnotes without code is to open any footnote, then press Ctrl-A, Copy. You can then paste them into Excel and use the text-to-columns function to split the footnote references from the content.

PS: Kindly post Word VBA questions in the Word VBA forum. You post does not concern 'Forum Support'. I have moved the thread to the correct forum.

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