I'm working on a huge document in which the author, rather than using auto-footnotes, has inserted superscript numbers where he wants footnotes. I need to turn these all into auto-footnotes.

I'm looking for a macro that will essentially do the following:

With a range of text selected (where the range could be the full document):

* find the first superscript number, or run of numbers (some of them go up t o 3 digits)
* replace it with an auto-footnote marker & create the corresponding footnote (it doesn't need to populate it, all that text is in a separate file so I will have to paste it in later)
* repeat until there are no more superscript numbers to be found.



Has anyone come across such a thing, or can see easily how you would script it? I'd be very grateful of recommendations as doing it manually is taking FOREVER - it's a 760-plus page document and there are hundreds and hundreds of markers. Thanks!

PS I'm not sure if it's Office 2016 I'm on but that seemed to be the latest version I could select for Mac - it's version 16.57. I could borrow my daughter's laptop instead if someone has one that runs on another version but not necessarily on Mac.

See, for example: Convert Fixed Notes to Dynamic Footnotes/Endnotes

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Paul Edstein
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Should this work on multiple pages? The macro works perfectly for all of the footnotes on the first page, but once it reaches the first footnote on the second page (say note 7), it loops with status "Creating note 7" until all of the remaining content in the body and footnotes have been deleted.

Should this work on multiple pages? The macro works perfectly for all of the footnotes on the first page, but once it reaches the first footnote on the second page (say note 7), it loops with status "Creating note 7" until all of the remaining content in the body and footnotes have been deleted.

glmcmillan: Kindly post post questions on the same topic in multiple threads. If you have questions about Greg Maxey's code, contact him though his website.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]