Is There Any Way to Search for Note Reference Markers in a Publisher File?

[Hangman]

Searching for a Superscript Character Style using Find and Replace will correctly locate all instances of the Superscript text but searching for a Notes Character Style regardless of whether Superscript is applied returns nothing...

Just wondering if there is any way to search for Note Reference Markers... they're not (perhaps understandably) picked up using Regex \p{No}/ug

[MikeTO]

I thought about suggesting adding "Notes" to the Scope field since I have hundreds of notes in the manual I've written and am always searching for something in them but I have a unique text style applied to the notes so it's just as easy to pick the text style from the list.

Suggesting this change seemed like a make-work project so I just recommend formatting notes with a unique style.

[Hangman]

5 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

Suggesting this change seemed like a make-work project so I just recommend formatting notes with a unique style.

This is exactly what I've done and it works well, the only 'issue' is (as I think you may have mentioned previously) it doesn't show the note reference number (character) which would be really helpful when navigating a long list, more so because of the bug which can result in misordered footnotes...

I would certainly second your suggestion of adding "Notes" to the Scope field...

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, Hangman said:

Regex \p{No}/ug

I find myself unsure what you think that Regex might accomplish. Can you break it down a bit for me, please?

2 hours ago, Hangman said:

Just wondering if there is any way to search for Note Reference Markers

There does not seem to be a way. Even assigning a unique Character Test Style to the notes references in the Notes panel does not allow the reference marks to be found. So about the best you can do is find the footnote itself (as Mike is suggesting, I think) and then use the Notes panel (or the right-click context menu) to go to the reference.

I'm not sure if this is intentional or a simple omission or a bug.

[Hangman]

6 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

I find myself unsure what you think that Regex might accomplish. Can you break it down a bit for me, please?

\p{No} matches a superscript or subscript digit
u modifier: Unicode pattern strings are treated as UTF-16. Also causes escape sequences to match Unicode characters
g modifier: Global all matches

Although I appreciate in practice isn't likely going to work for Note References in Publisher.

10 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

There does not seem to be a way. Even assigning a unique Character Test Style to the notes references in the Notes panel does not allow the reference marks to be found. So about the best you can do is find the footnote itself (as Mike is suggesting, I think) and then use the Notes panel (or the right-click context menu) to go to the reference.

What @MikeTO was suggesting and what I'd already done, since it was the only workaround I could find was to assign a unique Paragraph Style to the Note Body and then use Find and Replace to search for the Paragraph Style which is fine only, as mentioned above, it omits the Note Reference character making it less easy to locate in a very long list...