Ah, I see, of course, sorry if I sounded brash. In fiction, footnotes and endnotes work a little different--they usually are just as vital as the main text: they serve to get across a feeling of digression, recursion, et cetera. At least, that's how I'm wishing to use them. Maybe if I explained my project it'd be a bit more clear.

In my novel there's a chapter presented as a short story written by one of the main characters, a story written in third person and with endnotes commenting on various things.

That short story stars a character who is writing his own novel , and his novel has footnotes.

So there are several layers: I'm writing a story about a character writing a story about a character writing a story. There's a lot of recursion and bending inward, etc.

So if maybe the footnote function within Word may not help, like I asked just above, is there no ad hoc way to turn certain text into 'links'?