So what you want to do is to find NOTEREF fields whose location precedes the note to which they refer, then swap them around. Correct? Should be quite doable - it's just a matter of comparing the ranges for the two items, then using cut & paste for the re-locations.

I'm working on a uni assignment this week, so it'd probably be a day or two before I could take more of a look at it.

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