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Re: Indexing footnotes in Word [message #493 is a reply to message #492] Mon, 13 March 2017 10:05 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Jo Duflou wrote:

> I was wondering if there was any way to index and search footnotes and end
> notes in Word documents with Foxtrot personal? Presently, the only way I
> seem to be able to do this is by saving the file as a PDF file, where the
> footnotes are indexed.

There are two different things here: the text being indexed, and the text being displayed in the preview pane.

Concerning the text being indexed, Word footnotes should be properly indexed, so if you search for a word that appears only in a footnote, the document should be found.

However, footnotes are not displayed in the document preview, and hence, occurrences of the searched word are not highlighted in the footnotes. But you can option-click a found document in the search result list, to display the plain text that has been indexed, and this should include footnotes.


Jérôme - CTM Engineering


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