It is not uncommon to use footnotes and endnotes in many types of documents. They appear regularly in scholarly papers, providing references and text ancillary to the main text. If you edit such papers, prepared by others, you may have a need to modify the placement of endnote or footnote references to be consistent with whatever style guidelines you are using. For instance, the author may have placed the references before punctuation (such as a period or comma) and you need the reference to be after the punctuation.
Fortunately, you can easily shift around the positioning of footnote and endnote references by using Word's Find and Replace feature. Follow these steps:
The heart of this operation is the codes you enter in steps 4 and 5. The Find What codes define two groupings that you are looking for. Each grouping is surrounded by parentheses. The first grouping is the code ^2, which tells Word that you are looking for a note reference. When used with wildcard searches, this code will find both footnote and endnote references.
The second grouping consists of a pair of [brackets] within which you place the punctuation marks you want to move. In this case, a comma, period, and dash are included in the group. You can place any other punctuation mark in there that you want, except for an exclamation mark. The brackets surrounding the punctuation marks indicate to Word that you want to find a single occurrence of any of the characters within the brackets.
The result of this Find What sequence is that you want to find a note reference (endnote or footnote) followed by a single punctuation mark. If this is found, you want to replace it with what is in the Replace With box. The characters you enter there (step 5) indicate you want to replace what is found by the characters in the second group (the punctuation) followed by the characters in the first group (the note reference).
WordTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Word training. (Microsoft Word is the most popular word processing software in the world.) This tip (9631) applies to Microsoft Word 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016. You can find a version of this tip for the older menu interface of Word here: Standardizing Note Reference Placement.
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2018-11-17 12:09:04
Lourika
Hi just want to find out if I tipe a report and every thing must be in the senter how do I blok it example
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Al the : must be under each other how do I do that? I work on windows xp
2018-02-15 01:14:32
Allen-- thanks for your work and your very helpful tips.
I am having trouble with the global "find and replace" for moving footnotes per your instructions. I have tried your longer version, and also this version which uses wildcards. My dialog box keeps returning "We made 0 replacements," and on the "find next" returns "We found 0 instances."
I am using Word 2016--are the operators different?
I have written my dissertation using Scrivener, then compiled into Word.docx. In the transition, my footnote reference number routinely displays as "text period number quotation mark" if the sentence terminates in a quote. The numbers are properly place "period number" if there are no quotation marks to contend with.
Snapshot is included (see Figure 1 below) .
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
David
Figure 1. Example
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