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disfasia
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convert footnotes to endnotes

Post by disfasia »

Can I convert footnotes to endnotes? If so how? If not, Nisus can you make this a capacity in the future (and vice versa). For those of us who publish, one editor wants it one way and another the other--it is a lot of work to do manually.

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Hamid
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footnotes<->endnotes

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You can convert any or all footnotes to endnotes and vice versa.
To convert all footnotes to endnotes:
1. select all footnotes.
In the Statusbar at the right bottom of the document window you will see a green tag.
2. click the tag and from the pop-up menu apply 'Endnote'. This will convert all selected footnotes to endnotes.
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Post by disfasia »

Thanks so so much!

Cheers.
Derick
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Re: convert footnotes to endnotes

Post by Derick »

Could this be changed to a more intuitive UI in the future? I have been using NWP for seven years and still need to Google this forum post every time I need to convert an endnote to footnote or vice versa. I think most users expect a status bar to be displaying information, not enabling actions, and certainly do not expect it to be the only place that one can change the structure of part of a document.
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Hamid
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Re: convert footnotes to endnotes

Post by Hamid »

You can also convert any or all footnotes to endnotes and vice versa.
To convert all footnotes to endnotes:
1. select all footnotes (place the cursor anywhere inside a footnote and press Command-a twice).
2. Apply Format:Note Style:Endnote from the menu.
This will convert all selected footnotes to endnotes.
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Re: convert footnotes to endnotes

Post by martin »

Aside from Hamid's suggestion of using the main menu to convert footnotes to endnotes (or vice versa), you can also use the contextual menu. If you right-click on any footnote(s) the popup menu will have a command "Convert to Endnote", and vice versa for endnotes.

If there's someway we can make this feature more discoverable and obvious, we'd be happy to hear any suggestions.
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Re: convert footnotes to endnotes

Post by Jester »

This was great help, thanks! Pretty intuitive and easy to use :) .
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