Long wind comin....

I am not asking for anyone to write code for me, I just was interested in hearing all your experts' opinions about the methodology.

I have decided to stop whining and complaining about Word's prejudice against footnotes and actually try to do something about it.

The most important thing that I need is two or more series of FN.

So I thought I would write (with other's help of course See below) a group of macros that would handle this.

I have already done a prototype macro that does the following:

1. Insert a BM named TMP at the present location in the main text area.(MTA)



2. Get the selected text MTA, navigate to the end of the custom footnote (CFN) area that I created (this is just on another page and has a bookmark (named "CFN_AREA") at its end), and insert the text that was chosen in MTA and BM it with a unique name.

3. Return to the MTA (BM "TMP") area and create a cross-reference from the position of BM TMP to the BM I created in the CFN area.

4. Return to the my CFN area after the the inserted unique BM and prompt to write the actual CFN.

Believe it or not, it works!

I also purchased this Word add-in:

Cross-references in Word – DocTools CrossReferenceManager

This allows me to highlight all CRs and browse them and see their CR location on another file window. So I can review that everything is in order.

But things get a little tricky. Because if I want to insert one of a CFN earlier in the MTA it will put the CFN at the end after all the other CFN, so we need to find a way sync things.

I asked chatGPT to write me code to get the number of a currently selected word in MTA and it actually worked the first time!!. (Apocalypse coming!!!!)

So it would seem that what we have to do is assign the number of the word in MTA to each CFN and then if later on we insert a CFN, it should put it in the relatively correct position in the CFN area.

Does this make sense? Have I overlooked anything?

Input is very appreciated!!

Thank you all!!

Susan

PS I think I will be trying to get ChatGPT to write the actual parts of the macros for me once I get the methodology ironed out, and won't have to bother forum members

PPS If I get rich from this I promise to split the dividends with everybody

PPPS If anyone would like to do this for pay, plz send me PM with a ballpark idea what it would cost...