How Do I Count Footnotes?

True, find/replace can often be used to count things. But single-paragraph footnotes don't have the paragraph character, so you'd have to go for another character. Which is pretty scary.

A quick script is always a good solution, but one I've used on-the-fly (for a book in which I need to know how many short encyclopedia-like entries there are, for example) is to do a search and replace for the paragraph character on a key style. My example has one "date" paragraph in each entry, so if I F/R for the return using that style, it gives me an exact count.

If you've (properly) used a defined Footnote style, the same hacky-trick should give you an accurate count.

Or, you know, you could use a script, too. 🙂