How to systematically get endnote at bottom of WORD draft into the text

Pirate Jenny,

I think you can avoid doing it by hand. My suggestion is to use a Word macro that converts the endnotes in your documents to inline text and wraps them in Side Matter’s [ref] tags. From there, you could use the ‘Paste from Word’ button in WP’s Visual Editor.

This should be fairly straightforward even if you’re not familiar with Word macros. A Google search for ‘word macro convert endnotes to inline text’ turns up a number of user-written macros you could use as a base. This one would be a great place to start. Changing the 4 lines that read

Selection.Text = "<" + szFootNoteText + ">"
Selection.InsertParagraphBefore
Selection.InsertParagraphAfter
Selection.Font.Bold = wdToggle

to:

Selection.Text = "[ref]" + szFootNoteText + "[/ref]"

should make it work with Side Matter.

Not sure if it matters to Word whether your citations are configured as footnotes or endnotes — if it does, you may need to convert them to footnotes before running that particular macro.

Setzer –

First off let me thank you for responding.

I’ve worked on this for four hours – mind you (1) never written a macro or worked with Visual Basic before; (2) self-taught the little code I know. I was able to learn Draft mode and change endnotes to footnotes. Even with this, people were using the official Endnote program causing me search confusions. I learned how to show the Developer button. I suspected getting into a sidematter macro universally was going to get me into trouble so I did not go there.

I did the “Hello World” macro some kind soul explained quite clearly and I ran it successfully. In a trial project file, I think I put in Selection.text = “[ref]” + szFootNoteText + “[/ref]” but then a msg “can’t execute code in break mode” threw me for a loop [and msgs showing up as if I did not delete enough.

The result is I am leaving the effort as failed. Might there be some nifty plug-in would do the same thing for us auto-didacts with big holes in their knowledge?

Sorry to hear that didn’t work. Reproducing Word formatting on the Web is a real headache, and I can’t even guess at the complications EndNote would add.

I’d like to help more, but my own knowledge of macros/Word batch-editing is not vast. You might try asking about this at a forum dedicated to Word questions and support — lots of experts out there who might volunteer to write you a script.

I do think a Word macro is still your best shot — certainly preferable to doing it all manually. I don’t think there’s a WordPress plugin out there that can readily manipulate your post content in this way, at least right now.