microsoft.public.word.vba.general

Suppose you have to edit in Word the manuscript of a book which contains footnotes or endnotes. In Word, when you click on the note
indicator, it takes you to the relevant note, and vice versa. I want to leave the note indicators in place, and leave the notes in
place, but remove the hyperlinking between them.

The reason is that publishers prefer to receive text that is not linked in this way. (I think it messes up their typesetting
programs.)

To do this, I have to copy the notes into a separate document, replace all the note indicators in the original with normal
superscript (which, as you rightly say, deletes the notes), copy the notes back into the original and then number them manually.
(Publishers don't like Word's list format, either.)

"Jean-Guy Marcil" wrote in message
news:E1523B88-E588-4031-B18E-AC0118024C35@microsoft.com...
> "Trevor" wrote:
>
>> Can this be done with a macro?
>>
>> Can this be done at all without third-party software?
>
> Could you be less cryptic and provide more details?
> Why would you want to do this?
>
> If you unlink a footnote, it disappears.
> You mean you would like a footnote to stay at the bottom of the page, in the
> footnote section, but be able to delete the corresponding footnote indicator
> in the text above??
>
> The easiest would be to set the footnote indicator font to hidden. You can
> also set the style "Footnote Reference" to hidden. So all numbers in the
> whole document (both in the text and those at the bottom, next to each
> footnote) will not be printed or visible unless hidden text is dislpayed or
> printed on purpose.