Generating Bibliography from Pre-existing Footnotes in MS Word

Hello, I want to make my life easier, I have footnotes, I want to generate bibliographies from it. I know that there is such an option, but for this to happen I have to re-enter everything through references / insert a quote / add a new source, and then it will generate it where I want.

As I already wrote, I have footnotes ready, is it possible to generate a bibliography without entering it manually?

I suspect not, but I am not sure. If you really want to do such things -> LaTeX.

something more about it? he writes a thesis and wants to somehow skip these details.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX
Latex is a scripting language for writing books, publications, manuals, and any kind of work. Once you've got everything done, there's no point in switching to another system. Latex has to be learned, and writing the first few pages can take most of your writing time But worth. I wrote my MA (2 years ago) in Latex and I don't regret it a bit. The big advantage is that if you write such a work correctly, then any formatting can be changed with one simple command - for example, change the appearance of chapter headings, the format of the table of contents, the format of captions under the pictures, etc. This is a great thing. The easiest way for me to compare it to HTML (possibly with CSS). But as I wrote, when you have everything done in the word, I don't know if it makes sense to rewrite in something else. You are already cooked and things like what you are asking here have to be found in forums, and you probably can't do it anyway.

well, I have about 40 books, etc. and I don't want to introduce it too much to the Word base again, it will work for me if I will start copying to the end of the page and just format it in the right way.

Exactly, so probably do it on foot as conveniently and that's it. Because if you look for your trick to do it automatically, before you find a solution (which is not at all certain) you would probably have rewritten it on foot two times. 40 books is not that much. In Latex, the entire bibliography is saved in a separate file in a simple, clear text format (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BibTeX) and if you want, you can even use various programs to manage such a file, such as JabRef. In my work, we use one common source file in a group, where thousands of publications are already saved. In your text, it is enough to provide a conventional name (we have the author's name plus the year of publication) and the rest of the information appears automatically.

zbyszek100 wrote:

As I already wrote, I have footnotes ready, is it possible to generate a bibliography without entering it manually?

Theoretically, it is possible - you just need to write the appropriate code in VBA, which will do it (based on the structure of the document). However, "HOW?" - don't ask me anymore

There is a bibliography option in the word, but a small change in the footnotes is enough and the whole thing can get very confusing. The simplest form is described here Link . There is a small caveat to the bibliography so generated. Word has 10 bibliographic styles by default, not all of them are compliant with the Polish ISO-690 bibliographic standard. What can be manifested, for example, by changing the word p. On a page. A style is an xml file that can be properly refined. From the bibword website you can get an additional 5,000 compatible styles. There are many of them in professional bibliographic managers.
After installing a bibliography manager, eg Citavi, which is in Polish, you can get a bibliography relatively easily.

Writing a job in the Latex system, when you have everything in it, is pointless. Because it's a completely different world. it is a serious typesetting system where aspects of the bibliography, footnotes, citations and other typesetting elements are very fine-tuned.

zen3x wrote:

The simplest form is described here Link .

But in order to do biblographs in this way, I have to enter the sources manually, i.e. these 40 books.

Maybe I can propose something. I don't know if it works everywhere (I tested Word 2007), but here is the VBA code displaying MSGBOX footnotes from Word.

On the basis of this code, you can create a macro that creates a list that someone likes.

what should i do with this code?

zbyszek100 wrote:

what should i do with this code?

If you don't know what VBA and macros are - you won't do anything, but it looks like you don't know.
If you know what macros are - paste the contents of this procedure into the document with footnotes into the content of the new macro and check the operation (run the macro), is it what you mean?
The document must be saved in a form that allows you to run macros (in Word 2007 * .docm).
If they are displayed one by one, we will think about how to create a macro that will insert a biography at the current cursor location.

unfortunately I am green. My knowledge ends with Widok / Makra

Just to a document with existing footnotes:
1.add a new macro,
2. enter its edition,
3. Paste this code, save the document.

4. Place the cursor where you want the list to appear
5. Run the macro.

This is obviously a fairly simple method, with no numbering (you can think about that later) and no formatting (plain text).

Only messages for approval with the OK button appear. One book at a time in the communication

zbyszek100 wrote:

Only messages for approval with the OK button appear. One book at a time in the communication

Did you paste the second code I provided? Probably not.

it works! Thanks. It made it easy for me