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Method Word.body.search() doesn't find matching texts in footnotes/endnotes #4

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costashu opened this issue Jul 8, 2017 · 2 comments
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Area: Word Issue related to Word add-ins Type: product bug Bug in the Office Add-ins platform or Office JavaScript APIs

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costashu commented Jul 8, 2017

Word documents have such a significant feature as footnotes/endnotes. In Word UI searching finds matching text in them, but method doesn't. To reproduce, use the attached document footendnote.docx and your sample Search (not using setup):
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PS. Also, the text of footnotes/endnotes is not returned by any other methods.

@sumurthy sumurthy added Area: Word Issue related to Word add-ins Type: product bug Bug in the Office Add-ins platform or Office JavaScript APIs labels Nov 15, 2017
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foot notes are not supported currently on the API, please add user voice request here. https://officespdev.uservoice.com/

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this is a known gap in the API, actually in the backlog, so we will not keep this issue open indefinitely.

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