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dublove
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May 31, 2025
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Correction to question: How do I merge multiple lines of footnotes into one?

  • May 31, 2025
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Sorry.

 it seems to say to merge footnotes with the same content into one line

There are many such cases, for example:
[6] Originally cited in the original article.
[7] Originally cited in the original article.

[8] Originally cited in the original article.

 

Need to merge the same on the same line. Like this:

[6] [7] [8] [7] Originally cited in the original article.

 

It's now possible to optimize it with a script:

Convert the "superscripts" in the text to normal superscripts, and then delete the original superscripts?

 

 

@Robert at ID-Tasker 

@Barb Binder 

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Barb Binder
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Community Expert
May 31, 2025

Hi @dublove 

 

Nothing wrong with copy/paste but you can do this with a cross-reference so that changing the first reference updates the second.

 

 

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
dublove
dubloveAuthor
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June 1, 2025

Hi  Barb Binder 

Thank you

I initially thought of the quote as well.
But he's not just citing page numbers. He is needing the content to be the same.
I think it's rather insecure and unnecessary to copy security for such a complicated operation.

Robert at ID-Tasker
Legend
May 31, 2025

Text Variable. 

 

dublove
dubloveAuthor
Legend
May 31, 2025

Footnotes with the same content are not consecutive. Using text variables can be a bit complicated, and I think it's better to just copy it honestly.

Robert at ID-Tasker
Legend
May 31, 2025

Don't have to be consecutive.

 

But contents can't be longer than a single line.