ignore_footnotes property

FindReplaceOptions.ignore_footnotes property

Gets or sets a boolean value indicating either to ignore footnotes. The default value is False.

@property
def ignore_footnotes(self) -> bool:
    ...

@ignore_footnotes.setter
def ignore_footnotes(self, value: bool):
    ...

Examples

Shows how to ignore footnotes during a find-and-replace operation.

doc = aw.Document()
builder = aw.DocumentBuilder(doc)
builder.write('Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.')
builder.insert_footnote(aw.notes.FootnoteType.FOOTNOTE, 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.')
builder.insert_paragraph()
builder.write('Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.')
builder.insert_footnote(aw.notes.FootnoteType.ENDNOTE, 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.')
# Set the "ignore_footnotes" flag to "True" to get the find-and-replace
# operation to ignore text inside footnotes.
# Set the "ignore_footnotes" flag to "False" to get the find-and-replace
# operation to also search for text inside footnotes.
options = aw.replacing.FindReplaceOptions()
options.ignore_footnotes = is_ignore_footnotes
doc.range.replace('Lorem ipsum', 'Replaced Lorem ipsum', options)

See Also

FindReplaceOptions.ignore_fields property FindReplaceOptions.ignore_inserted property