Importing footnotes from Word (and making endnotes)

I have always had great problems importing footnotes from Word. After having saved Word as an .rtf and importing the text through and Cmd/Ctrl-D the footnotes come in at the bottom of every column in the text frame.
Is there any way of getting them to go to the end of the text whilst still keeping their numbers and the numbers in the body of the text?
I think what I want to do is change footnotes to endnotes.
At the moment I'm just deleting all the footnotes from each column and changing the leading to zero to close the box and then pasting all the footnotes from Word into the document as endnotes.
This way at least I still get the superscript numbers in the text OK but it's not a very elegant solution.

Hello Guys, Thank you so much for your answers. Sorry it took so long to get back to you, I've been really busy and I've only just got back to this job where I have all the footnotes. I tried  the Footnotes2Endnotes_v23.jsx and it worked first time!!
This will save me countless hours with this issue. I have resorted to pasting in the text and laboriously re-entered the numbers in the past!
Thank you Eugene and David.

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