Determine if page has a footnote

Is there a way to check if a given page has any footnotes on it?

You can check easily enough whether it has a footnote reference, but that's not the same as saying the footnote's text all appears on that page. I have one document with about 1.5 pages of text in a single footnote. Obviously, only part of that is going to fit on the same page as the footnote reference.

Thanks, this is my first attempt based upon your suggestion. I still have to deal with footnotes that flow over to another page.
It seems to work, but I would appreciate your professional opinion.
[VBA]Function DoesPageHaveFootnote(PageNo As Single) As Boolean
Dim oRng As Range
Dim i As Long
ActiveDocument.ComputeStatistics wdStatisticPages
Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToPage, Name:=PageNo
Set oRng = Selection.Bookmarks("\page").Range
oRng.Collapse wdCollapseStart
With oRng.Find
.Text = Chr(2)
While .Execute And oRng.InRange(ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("\Page").Range)
i = i + 1
Wend
End With
If i > 1 Then
DoesPageHaveFootnote = True
Else
DoesPageHaveFootnote = False
End If
i = 0
End Function[/VBA]

Thanks again:)

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Your function could be reduced to either of:
[vba]Function DoesPageHaveFootnote(PageNo As Long) As Boolean
Dim oRng As Range
Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToPage, Name:=PageNo
Set oRng = Selection.Bookmarks("\page").Range
DoesPageHaveFootnote = (oRng.Footnotes.Count > 0)
End Function[/vba]
or, to return the count:
[vba]Function DoesPageHaveFootnote(PageNo As Long) As Long
Dim oRng As Range
Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToPage, Name:=PageNo
Set oRng = Selection.Bookmarks("\page").Range
DoesPageHaveFootnote = oRng.Footnotes.Count
End Function[/vba]

Any ideas how to tell if the page has an "overflowed" footnote?

See: http://www.vbaexpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=44150

Thank you, but that will only tell if a footnote overflowed, but not if the page has an overflowed footnote.

Unless there's a way to get the page number that a footnote's reference is on, check the footnote and if it over flows then the we know that next page has a footnote.

You could easily enough derive that by testing the last preceding footnote ...

Can I trouble you for a sample?

Try:
[vba]Sub Test()
Dim oRng As Range, StrStats As String, i As Long
StrStats = GetFootnoteStats(ActiveDocument, 2)
i = Split(StrStats, ",")(0)
If i > 1 Then
i = i - 1
End If
MsgBox "Does the first bookmark start on the previous page? A: " & _
fFootNoteIsSplit(i, ActiveDocument)
i = Split(StrStats, ",")(1)
MsgBox "Does the last bookmark end on the next page? A: " & _
fFootNoteIsSplit(i, ActiveDocument)
End Sub
'
Function GetFootnoteStats(wdDoc As Document, PageNo As Long) As String
Dim oRng As Range, i As Long, j As Long
GetFootnoteStats = "0,0"
Set oRng = wdDoc.GoTo(What:=wdGoToPage, Name:=PageNo)
Set oRng = oRng.Bookmarks("\page").Range
If oRng.Footnotes.Count > 0 Then
i = oRng.Footnotes(1).Index
End If
If oRng.Footnotes.Count > 0 Then
j = oRng.Footnotes(oRng.Footnotes.Count).Index
End If
GetFootnoteStats = i & "," & j
End Function
'
Public Function fFootNoteIsSplit(ByRef lngFootnote As Long, _
Optional oDoc As Document) As Boolean
Dim oPage As Page
Dim oRec As Rectangle
Dim oFN As Footnote
Dim oFNStart As Word.Range
Dim oFNEnd As Word.Range
Dim bStartonPage As Boolean
Dim bEndonPage As Boolean
Dim lngView As Long
If oDoc Is Nothing Then Set oDoc = ActiveDocument
lngView = oDoc.ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Type
If lngView <> wdPrintView Then
oDoc.ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Type = wdPrintView
End If
Set oFN = oDoc.Footnotes(lngFootnote)
Set oFNStart = oFN.Range
oFNStart.Collapse wdCollapseStart
Set oFNEnd = oFN.Range
oFNEnd.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
Set oPage = oDoc.ActiveWindow.ActivePane.Pages(oFN.Range.Information(wdActiveEndPageNum ber))
bStartonPage = False
bEndonPage = False
For Each oRec In oPage.Rectangles
If oFNStart.InRange(oRec.Range) Then
bStartonPage = True
Exit For
End If
Next oRec
For Each oRec In oPage.Rectangles
If oFNEnd.InRange(oRec.Range) Then
bEndonPage = True
Exit For
End If
Next oRec
If bStartonPage And bEndonPage Then
fFootNoteIsSplit = False
Else
fFootNoteIsSplit = True
End If
oDoc.ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Type = lngView
End Function[/vba]

Whats the point of
[VBA]If i > 1 Then
i = i - 1
End If[/VBA]

Try the code without it on the first footnote in a document and what do you suppose would happen?

I tried the code both with and without it on all pages, and it always returned the same results.

Put it this way - there is no such thing as ActiveDocument.Footnotes(0). Trying to reference it (eg MsgBox ActiveDocument.Footnotes(0).Index) will cause an error.

Sorry my bad, I also removed the i = i - 1 line. I see what you are saying.

Based on all the help received in this thread this is my proposed solution. Comments are welcome.

[VBA]Option Explicit

Dim colPagesWithFootnotes As New Collection

Sub Test()
Dim varItem As Variant
LoopAllPages
For Each varItem In colPagesWithFootnotes
Debug.Print varItem
Next varItem
Debug.Print fIsInCollection(colPagesWithFootnotes, 1)
End Sub

Sub LoopAllPages()
Dim oRng As Range
Dim i As Integer
Dim lngPgNo As Long
With ActiveDocument
For i = 1 To ActiveDocument.BuiltInDocumentProperties(wdPropertyPages)
Set oRng = .GoTo(What:=wdGoToPage, Name:=i)
Set oRng = oRng.GoTo(What:=wdGoToBookmark, Name:="\page")
lngPgNo = oRng.Information(wdActiveEndPageNumber)
If oRng.Footnotes.Count > 0 Then
If fIsInCollection(colPagesWithFootnotes, lngPgNo) = False Then
colPagesWithFootnotes.Add lngPgNo
End If
If fDoesPageHaveOverflowingFootnote(i) Then
If fIsInCollection(colPagesWithFootnotes, lngPgNo + 1) = False Then
colPagesWithFootnotes.Add lngPgNo + 1
End If
End If
End If
Next i
End With
End Sub

Public Function fIsInCollection(col As Collection, Item As Variant) As Boolean
Dim var As Variant
On Error GoTo ERROR_TRAP
fIsInCollection = True
var = col(Item)
Exit Function
ERROR_TRAP:
fIsInCollection = False
End Function

Function fDoesPageHaveOverflowingFootnote(PageNo As Integer, Optional wdDoc As Document) As String
Dim oRng As Range, i As Long
If wdDoc Is Nothing Then Set wdDoc = ActiveDocument
Set oRng = Selection.GoTo(What:=wdGoToPage, Name:=PageNo)
Set oRng = oRng.Bookmarks("\page").Range
If oRng.Footnotes.Count > 0 Then
i = oRng.Footnotes(oRng.Footnotes.Count).Index
fDoesPageHaveOverflowingFootnote = fFootNoteIsSplit(i)
Else
fDoesPageHaveOverflowingFootnote = False
End If
End Function

Public Function fFootNoteIsSplit(ByRef lngFootnote As Long, _
Optional oDoc As Document) As Boolean
Dim oPage As Page
Dim oRec As Rectangle
Dim oFN As Footnote
Dim oFNStart As Word.Range
Dim oFNEnd As Word.Range
Dim bStartonPage As Boolean
Dim bEndonPage As Boolean
Dim lngView As Long
If oDoc Is Nothing Then Set oDoc = ActiveDocument
lngView = oDoc.ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Type
If lngView <> wdPrintView Then
oDoc.ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Type = wdPrintView
End If
Set oFN = oDoc.Footnotes(lngFootnote)
Set oFNStart = oFN.Range
oFNStart.Collapse wdCollapseStart
Set oFNEnd = oFN.Range
oFNEnd.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
Set oPage = oDoc.ActiveWindow.ActivePane.Pages(oFN.Range.Information(wdActiveEndPageNum ber))
bStartonPage = False
bEndonPage = False
For Each oRec In oPage.Rectangles
If oFNStart.InRange(oRec.Range) Then
bStartonPage = True
Exit For
End If
Next oRec
For Each oRec In oPage.Rectangles
If oFNEnd.InRange(oRec.Range) Then
bEndonPage = True
Exit For
End If
Next oRec
If bStartonPage And bEndonPage Then
fFootNoteIsSplit = False
Else
fFootNoteIsSplit = True
End If
oDoc.ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Type = lngView
End Function
[/VBA]

I've just had occasion to revisit this.

Instead of:
Set oRng = oRng.Bookmarks("\page").Range
Use:
Set oRng = oRng.GoTo(What:=wdGoToBookmark, Name:="\page")

There also seem to be some issues with the fFootNoteIsSplit function, but I don't have time to delve into that right now.

Thank you, I would appreciate any input on the fFootNoteIsSplit function if and when you have time. So far it seems to work, but I'm interested to see what you can dig up.

One issue I've found is that the code changes the selection. That's easily fixed by changing:
Set oRng = Selection.GoTo(What:=wdGoToPage, Name:=PageNo)
Set oRng = oRng.Bookmarks("\page").Range
in the 'fDoesPageHaveOverflowingFootnote' function to:
Set oRng = wdDoc.GoTo(What:=wdGoToPage, Name:=PageNo)
Set oRng = oRng.GoTo(What:=wdGoToBookmark, Name:="\page")
(note that this incorporates the change referred to in my previous post)

Another issue is that it doesn't seem to report the pages spanned by the identified footnotes. I have a copy of an academic book, where one footnote spans two page breaks. For some code to retrieve the page #s on which the footnote references to split footnotes occur, try:

Code:

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Sub GetSplitFtNtPages()
Dim oRng As Range, i As Long, wdDoc As Document, StrPages As String, StrOut As String
Set wdDoc = ActiveDocument
With wdDoc
  For i = 1 To .ComputeStatistics(wdStatisticPages)
    If fDoesPageHaveOverflowingFootnote(i, wdDoc) Then
      StrPages = StrPages & i & " "
    End If
  Next
End With
StrPages = Trim(StrPages)
StrPages = Replace(StrPages, " ", ", ", 1, UBound(Split(StrPages, " ")) - 1)
StrPages = Left(StrPages, InStrRev(StrPages, " ")) & "& " & _
  Right(StrPages, Len(StrPages) - InStrRev(StrPages, " "))
MsgBox "Split footnotes begin on pages: " & StrPages
End Sub

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Note: I've converted your Integer variables to Long