Copy MS Word endnote text to Notepad++
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I have a MS Word doc which is full of endnotes (citations). I want to copy a section of text including the endnote reference and paste it into Notepad++. For example, consider this text:
“She is survived by Edward W. Bridgham[Sun-Journal, Lewiston, Maine, Jan. 12, 1937, Tuesday, p. 2]”
…where the text in the [] is the link to the endnote.
I use Ctrl-C to copy the text and endnote text, but when I paste it into Notepad++, the endnote text isn’t copied. All I get is:
“She is survived by Edward W. Bridgham[ ]” and the brackets are in red.
Is there a way to do this?
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@Joel-Bridgham Copy the text in the brackets separately and add the same
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@dr-ramaanand
I should have added that I’m using v8.7.1. Also, the brackets and the text they contain are superscripts.Also, I didn’t describe the problem accurately. The plain text and endnote reference are actually:
“She is survived by Edward W. Bridgham[564]” where [564] is a superscript.
When I hover the mouse over the superscript (564), then the endnote text (“Sun-Journal, Lewiston, Maine, Jan. 12, 1937, Tuesday, p. 2”) pops up. But I’m unable to copy that text. If I attempt to copy the entire text, including the superscript, then when I paste it into Notepad++, I get the results as described in my first note, above.
Your reply is rather terse. I can’t copy the text from the pop-up. And what do you mean by “add the same”? I assume you mean paste?
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@Joel-Bridgham said in Copy MS Word endnote text to Notepad++:
Is there a way to do this?
You need to understand that the endnote function in MS Word has no parallel in Notepad++. It acts in a similar fashion to a hyperlink. So as the endnote text doesn’t actually appear alongside the words you are copying you will not be able to copy in a single step all that you want.
I did a few basic tests with endnotes including saving the Word file as “plain text”. Unfortunately it still didn’t place the reference alongside the text that referred to it. So you will need to identify yourself what might work as obviously what you have currently tried will not work. You might even consider creating a Word macro to find each reference link, then copy that endnote and pasting alongside the text that referenced it. Essentially you will be removing the endnotes by moving that endnote to it’s rightful place. As this would be a destructive process I’d say work on a copy of the file.
Notepad++ is a text editor so obviously works in a completely different way to Word which is a word processor.
Terry
PS a quick Google search found this website (a MSoffice forum no less). See here. I will leave it up to you to read, decipher and consider if it is what you want to try. As it’s not about Notepad++, further discussions on this Word function isn’t permitted here. Good luck.
