Renumbering Logos Footnotes in Microsoft Word?

Hello,

Forgive me if this question was asked elsewhere; I tried searching, but could not find any other discussion.

On my Mac running the latest versions of Microsoft Word (15.39) and Logos (7.10), I'm having difficulty working with footnotes in an excerpt that is exported from Logos to a Word document. Thank God, the export works well and the resulting document has the footnotes intact, but it seems that Logos is preserving the footnote numbering from the original book. I understand why this is good and am not questioning the practice, but I am wondering whether this is a way to renumber the footnotes so that they make more sense in a standalone document, especially in the case where the excerpt is pasted into a larger work. It is becoming quite tedious to work with long passages and try to update the footnotes one by one. I imagine that, since Microsoft Word respects the references as footnotes (and it seems that is the case), there should be a way to easily renumber them, but it's not working, unfortunately.

Perhaps there is something in Logos' handling of this that is breaking this functionality?

Any help would be appreciated!

In XC

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FrMoses

By way of update, I just did a clean export from Logos to a Word (RTF) file. Without opening that file, I use the "Place" feature to put it into an Indesign document, and lo and behold, this script was visible in the text of the document:

Sub MakeFootNotesAuto()

Dim f As Footnote

For Each f In ActiveDocument.Footnotes

f.Range.FootnoteOptions.NumberingRule _

= wdRestartContinuous

Next f

End Sub

Perhaps this code is responsible for the numbering issue?

Dave Hooton

I imagine that, since Microsoft Word respects the references as footnotes (and it seems that is the case), there should be a way to easily renumber them

You would have to look at Word's options for Footnotes, though I suspect it relates only to ones created by Word. Also imported footnote markers can vary from numbers to letters or mixed alphanumeric, so it makes it difficult to 'renumber' them.