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Jay
 
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I€(tm)m putting together a business plan and I need to annotate an Excel
spreadsheet with endnotes. Is there anyway to make a note reference
(e.g. €śNote 23€ť) print in excel without typing it into a cell? In
other words is there any kind of automated system to be able to insert
and renumber notes so that they can be printed out in a separate
document, preferable, Word document, and refer back to a particular
line in the spreadsheet? What I€(tm)m looking for is a Word type endnote
function.


This isn't the solution you asked for, but it might help. It's like Word's
bookmarks and fields, rather than endnotes.

Make up a name for each note, like you would a bookmark name in Word.

On a separate worksheet, make a three-column list with:
Column A as the note name.
Column B has "=ROW()" without the quotes.
Column C has the text of the note.

To print the separate sheet of notes, hide column A (or just set the print
area to exclude column A).

When you want a note reference in the business-plan worksheet, use VLOOKUP
to look up the note number (column B of the separate sheet) based on the
note name.

When notes are added, removed, or re-ordered, things ought to get
renumbered appropriately.