| Re: Indexing footnotes in Word [message #494 is a reply to message #493] |
Mon, 13 March 2017 10:16   |
Jo Duflou
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Registered: March 2017
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Thank you for your quick response.
> On 13 Mar 2017, at 8:05 pm, FoxTrot Engineering wrote:
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> Jo Duflou wrote:
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>> 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.
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> There are two different things here: the text being indexed, and the text being displayed in the preview pane.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Jérôme - CTM Engineering
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