I'm right with you about manual endnotes. I had sizable decks of indesx cards myself. I was so happy when WordPerfect came along.

I have added words to the dictionary, but the issue continues to come up. I can't think of all the special vocabulary I might want to use, like Hebrew stem names, e.g., Qal, Nifal, or technical linguistic terms. It feels easier to me to use the word, and spell-check at the end.

And that'll give a Qamets to your Patakh!

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I appreciate your help. I have grabbed and bookmarked the page the link goes to. As the risk of sounding ungrateful--which is not the case--after programming professionally in multiple languages, the macro reminds me a bit of JavaScript with of course special commands. Not knowing Word's macro language, would you please give me a little about what it is specifically doing.

Yes, I was aware of this problem. I have been doing footnotes and endnotes in MS Word for many many years. I wrote my dissertation in it from 2000-2003. It was only this specific situation that gave me these difficulties. I removed the '1'/'i' that showed because it was doubled. I only needed one.


Long ago, I formatted proper CMOS footnotes and endnotes and asked Word to use that format in all new documents. For some reason, it did not do that. In fact, when I added a note in the main text, the endnote numbers at the end of the text were aligned all over the place: flush left, one tab over, etc. I have no idea what happened. I expect software to work the same way each time. This behavior stumped me. So, I did some hacking on each endnotes, until I did a copy and paste of the entire document and that fixed most of the issues.


Anyways, thanks for the help. I've got things going.

Basically, the macro goes through all the endnotes, copies them to the end of the document body, and inserts an incrementally-numbered placeholder in the document body where the endnote used to be and allocates the same number to the endnote content that's been inserted at the end of the document body. The existing endnote numbers are disregarded. The macro then deletes all the Endnotes, before recreating all them from scratch, inserting them at the numbered placeholder locations and transferring the content for each endnote from the end of the document to the Endnote range, thus ensuring they all auto-numbered in the right sequence in both the document body and the Endnote range.

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Thank you for the explanation. Sounds very clever!