Copy & paste text WITH footnotes

Using Pages v5.6.1 on El Capitan 10.11.1, I can copy a selection of text with a Footnote, and the Footnote entry from the bottom of the Page to another Pages v5.6.1 document. This only works if you are using a simple Paste, and not Paste and Match Style.

If you try to copy/paste Footnote content from an opened Pages '09 document (using Pages '09) into a Pages v5.6.1 document, then neither paste method will succeed.

When using Pages v5.6.1, and with the history of Pages v5 (pick a release) of suddenly no longer opening a document, you would be advised to use TimeMachine, not use Dropbox (or any other cloud service), and keep a fresh copy of your thesis in an exported Word .docx format on a thumb drive. Too much time and effort in a thesis to gamble with Pages — which is not a Word clone.

University discounts for students allow you to get Office 2016 for Mac reasonably cheap. The key takeaway with Word 2016 is that you will be working in the Word native document format, and not what Pages v5.6.1 decides to translate on export. The last thing you want in submitting a thesis is that the reviewers are using Office 2013 on a PC and encounter formatting irregularities introduced by Pages.

I am using Pages 5.6.1. I want to select and copy all the endnotes at once, but I am unable to do so. (No select function - see photo). It seems as if I have to manually select, copy and paste every single footnote/endnote?

Just as Pages v5 will not allow you to select non-contiguous text in the document body, it consistently does not allow you to select adjacent footnotes/endnotes. Yes, it is one at a time.