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Is it possible to create a bibliography from footnotes in Word Office 365? If so, how?

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  • Does it need to be a proper Word bibliography or can it be a manually created one?
    – Crimsonfox
    May 4, 2023 at 13:20
  • @Crimsonfox It doesn't need to be a proper one. As long as it shows all of the sources I used as footnotes...
    – Peter Andres
    May 4, 2023 at 15:08
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Technically, this cannot be done, as a footnote is not a citation and contains no data fields as it's just text, and also Word's Citation Manager can't work with footnotes.

There is a procedure for it, but it requires some work. Do the following on a copy of your document.

  • Convert all the footnotes to endnotes at the end of the document:
    • Position to the References tab
    • In the Footnotes group click the little square at the bottom
    • Click Convert... and Convert all footnotes to endnotes
  • In the endnotes list, click just before the first endnote
  • Scroll to the end of the endnotes
  • Hold the Shift key and click at the end of the last endnote to select all the endnotes
  • Press Ctrl+C to copy to the Clipboard
  • Open a new blank document and paste (Ctrl+V) the endnotes.
    You now have a document that has just the endnotes
  • Sort the paragraphs alphabetically
  • Edit the endnotes, deleting the text and references that you don't need
  • Structure and format as desired.

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