Keyboard shortcut to move into next footnote text flow?

[Lin Sims]

There is no keyboard shortcut to jump from one footnote flow to the next.
Maybe an Extendscript could save you some keystrokes?


On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Harding, Dan <dharding at illinois.edu> wrote:

>  My apologies if I’m using incorrect terminology.
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> When I start a chapter via importing from Word, there’s a fair amount of
> cleanup work I have to do re: footnotes. If my cursor is in a footnote  and
> I want to jump to the next footnote (not to the footnote’s position in the
> main text, but into the footnote text flow), is there a keyboard shortcut
> for doing so?
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> I have been able to search for the next footnote paragraph tag, and while
> that works, (1) it’s multiple keystrokes, and more importantly (2) if the
> source document was tagged inconsistently, the search will fail, jumping to
> a subsequent footnote, meaning I still have to manually go through and fix
> the outliers.
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> I can fix #1 via AutoHotKey. #2 is a sticky problem.
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> If there is a shortcut, I’m unaware of it, and if there is a better object
> to search for than the paragraph tag, I’m also ignorant of that.
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> I know that many people say to avoid importing from Word, but when you
> have chapters that have 200-400 footnotes and as many index markers, trust
> me, you do NOT want to have to manually redo all of those…
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> Thanks in advance,
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> -Dan
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> P.S. FM12 (TCS5) on Windows Enterprise 64-bit, if it makes a difference.
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Lin Sims
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