Copy Pasting Text with footnotes from Word for Mac into Pages

I am trying to copy/paste text with footnotes from Word for Mac into Pages, and while the formatting is preserved, the footnotes are not picked up -- even the in-text numbers are lost. Any advice how to fix this?

MacBook, macOS 10.14

Posted on May 15, 2019 9:32 AM

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VikingOSX

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May 15, 2019 12:39 PM in response to seamayde

The only means to get Word footnotes correctly into Pages is to open a Word document in Pages, and let the translation process do its handiwork. Footnotes are preserved when you do this.

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