Personal Books and Word footnotes

Dudley Rose · February 25

This topic has been addressed before, but I am still struggling with It. My issue arises when converting Amazon, ePub or other formats to docx with calibre and then convert them to Logos personal books. The notes in the resulting books inconsistently hyperlink, if at all. I can't seem to find a solution other than hand reformatting the notes in the docx file. I'm sorry to be so thick.

JT (alabama24) · February 25

Dudley Rose said:
The notes in the resulting books inconsistently hyperlink, if at all.

You should not post the .docx file here, but can you give some screen shot snippets of ones which fail?

Fabian · February 25

I have a question: How do the links look in Word? Are they there different too? If yes, then maybe you should knock on the Calibre door.

Dudley Rose · February 25

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1288003#Comment_1288003

So, this is like going to the doctor and the symptoms disappear. The book I'm just working on, Greenstein's Job, turned out perfectly. I'll revisit some of my previous conversions to see what I can figure out. I'll post back here if I find anything interesting.

Robert M. Warren · February 26

Hi Dudley:

Calibre usually converts Kindle format footnotes into MS Word Bookmarks and converts the in-text markers into links to the Bookmarks, which works out really well in PBs. I haven't converted a Kindle book having footnotes in a while, but I did notice in the past that sometimes footnote functionality just didn't survive the Calibre conversion, so I attributed it to the Fallen World and moved on.

If you do have any Kindle converts that fail in the future, or if you have some other docx with dead footnotes, there is an MS Word macro that I developed that should work on a consistently-formatted Word docx.

The main thread is here: https://community.logos.com/forums/t/87713.aspx

and the re-post of the dead link is here: https://community.logos.com/forums/p/87713/911714.aspx#911714

Caveats: I am no longer physically able to do revisions; I don't know if it still works and not sure about macOS (not sure if there are Windows API stuff in it). But, if you have a few minutes, you can experiment. Just read the instructions carefully, particularly about safe copies.

JT (alabama24) · February 26

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1288013#Comment_1288013

Fabian said:
How do the links look in Word?

I am assuming the OP simply means something like plain language references like John 3:16. These should auto link to whatever the prioritized Bible is on your installation.

JT (alabama24) · February 26

Dudley Rose said:
The notes in the resulting books inconsistently hyperlink, if at all. I can't seem to find a solution other than hand reformatting the notes in the docx file. I'm sorry to be so thick.

Sorry, I misunderstood. I think it is just the luck of the draw depending upon how the eBook was created. Logos doesn't provide support for those kind of links... only the manual ones using the designated syntax.

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