Advanced Footnotes
Convert Footnotes from Imported Documents
Pressbooks can also automatically convert your Microsoft Word or Open Office footnotes or chapter endnotes for you.
To convert MS Word/Open Office footnotes/endnotes:
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After copying or importing Word doc, click “Convert MS Word Footnotes” button Paste the document contents into the Pressbooks visual editor.
- Click the ‘Convert MS Word Footnotes’ option from the visual editor (the icon looks like a four-panel window pane)
This will convert the imported footnotes into Pressbooks-supported footnote shortcodes. The conversion process produces an ellipses (…) at the bottom of the chapter for each converted footnote. These should be manually deleted before save.
![Converted footnotes and ellipses to delete](https://pressbooks.pub/app/uploads/sites/4748/2022/10/Footnotes-Word-2-e1634340716276.png)
Prefer to watch and learn? Here’s a brief visual intro to adding footnotes in Pressbooks.