help with footnotes

[MarcusStringer]

Does anyone know how to change the footnote number to something else?
eg. this is the paragraph text1 where 1 is the footnote number
this is the paragraph text[[FR 1]]where [[FR 1]] is the new footnote number

 

[fumei]

Huh? Could you try rephrasing that? Footnote number to something else? Uh, like what? New footnote number? As in, make footnote 1 into footnote 352? Or something else, like a table?

Don't understand what you are asking.

Gerry

 

[MarcusStringer]

Yeah, sorry about that, let me try again..

I have a word file which has 200 odd footnotes.
I have to change the footnote numbers to<FootnoteNumber>
[[FR <FootnoteNumber>]]

So it reads 1 [[FR 1]], 2 [[FR 2]] etc all the way to 200.
I can get most of it through doing a find for ^f and replacing with ^&[[FR ^&]],
but the second ^& becomes footnote 2 instead of one.

So I was thinking about just doing a find for ^f and replacing it with ^& [[FR 1]], and somehow have that 1 count on so when it hits the next footnote it will be 2, and so on (like an autonumber).

But I can't work out how to make that second number the same as the footnote number.


Marcus

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[fumei]

Hmmm. This is more tricky than expected. Hmmm.

Gerry

 

[TonyJollans]

Hi Marcus,

You really can't do this. It is possible to make footnote reference text appear as almost anything you like and, with code, you could address your problem but I don't see why you want the number twice. Replacing, simply, with [[FR ^&]] should work but this is a textual change and must be done to both the reference in the document body and the reference in the footnotes separately

However, footnotes just don't have any real facility for text like this and it is only the numeric element which actually constitutes the reference.

Enjoy,
Tony

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