Converting superscript footnote reference numbers in the body text to plain text

[andreas]

Dear Experts:

For some specific reason I need to convert all superscript footnote
reference numbers in the main text body into plain text. Is this
possible and how?

Help is much appreciated. Thank you very much in advance. Regards,
Andreas

[Pesach Shelnitz]

Hi Andreas,

The following line of code will accomplish this, but it will also convert
the number in the footnotes themselves to plain text.

ActiveDocument.Styles(wdStyleFootnoteReference).Font.Superscript = False

Do you need the footnote number in the footnotes to be superscripted?
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Hope this helps,
Pesach Shelnitz

Post by andreas
For some specific reason I need to convert all superscript footnote
reference numbers in the main text body into plain text. Is this
possible and how?
Help is much appreciated. Thank you very much in advance. Regards,
Andreas

[andreas]

Post by Pesach Shelnitz
Hi Andreas,
The following line of code will accomplish this, but it will also convert
the number in the footnotes themselves to plain text.
    ActiveDocument.Styles(wdStyleFootnoteReference).Font.Superscript = False
Do you need the footnote number in the footnotes to be superscripted?
--
Hope this helps,
Pesach Shelnitz

Post by andreas
For some specific reason I need to convert all superscript footnote
reference numbers in the main text body into plain text. Is this
possible and how?
Help is much appreciated. Thank you very much in advance. Regards,
Andreas- Zitierten Text ausblenden -

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Hi Pesach,

thanks for the quick help. I guess you got my question wrong. I would
like all of the footnotes to be converted into just normal numbers
(i.e. the link with the footnote itself at the bottom of the page will
be broken).

Regards, Andreas

[macropod]

Hi andreas,

Do you need to do more than remove the superscripting? If not, simply select any footnote reference in the body of the document. The
selected Style name should change to 'Footnote Reference'. Then choose Format|Style|Modify|Format|Font, uncheck the superscript
option and click OK|OK|Apply.
--
Cheers
macropod
[Microsoft MVP - Word]

Post by andreas
For some specific reason I need to convert all superscript footnote
reference numbers in the main text body into plain text. Is this
possible and how?
Help is much appreciated. Thank you very much in advance. Regards,
Andreas

[andreas]

Post by macropod
Hi andreas,
Do you need to do more than remove the superscripting? If not, simply select any footnote reference in the body of the document. The
selected Style name should change to 'Footnote Reference'. Then choose Format|Style|Modify|Format|Font, uncheck the superscript
option and click OK|OK|Apply.
--
Cheers
macropod
[Microsoft MVP - Word]

Post by andreas
For some specific reason I need to convert all superscript footnote
reference numbers in the main text body into plain text. Is this
possible and how?
Help is much appreciated. Thank you very much in advance. Regards,
Andreas- Zitierten Text ausblenden -

- Zitierten Text anzeigen -

Hi macropod,

thanks for the quick help. I guess you got my question wrong. I would
like all of the footnotes to be converted into just normal numbers
(i.e. the link with the footnote itself at the bottom of the page will
be broken).

Regards, Andreas

[macropod]

Hi andreas,

I would like all of the footnotes to be converted into just normal numbers
(i.e. the link with the footnote itself at the bottom of the page will be broken).

If you do that, you'll lose the footnote text!

The only way I can see of dealing with this at all gracefully is to insert a single-cell table at the bottom of each page containing
footnotes, cut & paste the footnote text into that cell (the cell being allowed to grow to fit the # lines in the footnote and the
table formatting set to 'around'), number the corresponding paragraphs in the table, then delete the footnote marker and replace it
with a simple number. Even that will come unstuck where the text for a given footnote spans more than one page.
--
Cheers
macropod
[Microsoft MVP - Word]

Post by macropod
Hi andreas,
Do you need to do more than remove the superscripting? If not, simply select any footnote reference in the body of the document.
The
selected Style name should change to 'Footnote Reference'. Then choose Format|Style|Modify|Format|Font, uncheck the superscript
option and click OK|OK|Apply.
--
Cheers
macropod
[Microsoft MVP - Word]

Post by andreas
For some specific reason I need to convert all superscript footnote
reference numbers in the main text body into plain text. Is this
possible and how?
Help is much appreciated. Thank you very much in advance. Regards,
Andreas- Zitierten Text ausblenden -

- Zitierten Text anzeigen -

Hi macropod,
thanks for the quick help. I guess you got my question wrong. I would
like all of the footnotes to be converted into just normal numbers
(i.e. the link with the footnote itself at the bottom of the page will
be broken).
Regards, Andreas

[andreas]

Post by macropod
Hi andreas,

I would like all of the footnotes to be converted into just normal numbers
(i.e. the link with the footnote itself at the bottom of the page will be broken).

If you do that, you'll lose the footnote text!
The only way I can see of dealing with this at all gracefully is to insert a single-cell table at the bottom of each page containing
footnotes, cut & paste the footnote text into that cell (the cell being allowed to grow to fit the # lines in the footnote and the
table formatting set to 'around'), number the corresponding paragraphs in the table, then delete the footnote marker and replace it
with a simple number. Even that will come unstuck where the text for a given footnote spans more than one page.
--
Cheers
macropod
[Microsoft MVP - Word]

Post by macropod
Hi andreas,
Do you need to do more than remove the superscripting? If not, simply select any footnote reference in the body of the document.
The
selected Style name should change to 'Footnote Reference'. Then choose Format|Style|Modify|Format|Font, uncheck the superscript
option and click OK|OK|Apply.
--
Cheers
macropod
[Microsoft MVP - Word]

Post by andreas
For some specific reason I need to convert all superscript footnote
reference numbers in the main text body into plain text. Is this
possible and how?
Help is much appreciated. Thank you very much in advance. Regards,
Andreas- Zitierten Text ausblenden -

- Zitierten Text anzeigen -

Hi macropod,
thanks for the quick help. I guess you got my question wrong. I would
like all of the footnotes to be converted into just normal numbers
(i.e. the link with the footnote itself at the bottom of the page will be broken).
Regards, Andreas- Hide quoted text -

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Thank you for your quick answer. In the meantime I found a solution. I
save my document in the "txt" format. Then open this txt-version in
Word Pad. This way all the footnote reference numbers are converted
into just plain figures. I then can copy this text and paste it back
into my Word document.

Anyhow, thank you very much for your professional help. Regards,
Andreas