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Footnotes
How can you make footnotes stay consistent say you use *
and you want to be ** for the second footnote. I tried it and instead of giving me **, its gives me + sign and the second footnote. Please help. |
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That is the standard sequence: asterisk, dagger, double dagger, section
sign, paragraph sign. These are used primarily for small numbers of footnotes (usually content rather than documentation) and often restarted on each page. For more serious documentation, you should use numbered footnotes. You can specify a custom mark but not a custom series, so you would have to mark each footnote separately. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Mary" wrote in message ... How can you make footnotes stay consistent say you use * and you want to be ** for the second footnote. I tried it and instead of giving me **, its gives me + sign and the second footnote. Please help. |
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That is the standard sequence: asterisk, dagger, double dagger, section
sign, paragraph sign. These are used primarily for small numbers of footnotes (usually content rather than documentation) and often restarted on each page. For more serious documentation, you should use numbered footnotes. You can specify a custom mark but not a custom series, so you would have to mark each footnote separately. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Mary" wrote in message ... How can you make footnotes stay consistent say you use * and you want to be ** for the second footnote. I tried it and instead of giving me **, its gives me + sign and the second footnote. Please help. |
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Letting Word put in asterisk, dagger, etc, and then running Find and Replace
after the fact *might* work, switching dagger for double asterisk, etc. On 9/27/04 3:18 PM, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: That is the standard sequence: asterisk, dagger, double dagger, section sign, paragraph sign. These are used primarily for small numbers of footnotes (usually content rather than documentation) and often restarted on each page. For more serious documentation, you should use numbered footnotes. You can specify a custom mark but not a custom series, so you would have to mark each footnote separately. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Mary" wrote in message ... How can you make footnotes stay consistent say you use * and you want to be ** for the second footnote. I tried it and instead of giving me **, its gives me + sign and the second footnote. Please help. |
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Letting Word put in asterisk, dagger, etc, and then running Find and Replace
after the fact *might* work, switching dagger for double asterisk, etc. On 9/27/04 3:18 PM, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: That is the standard sequence: asterisk, dagger, double dagger, section sign, paragraph sign. These are used primarily for small numbers of footnotes (usually content rather than documentation) and often restarted on each page. For more serious documentation, you should use numbered footnotes. You can specify a custom mark but not a custom series, so you would have to mark each footnote separately. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Mary" wrote in message ... How can you make footnotes stay consistent say you use * and you want to be ** for the second footnote. I tried it and instead of giving me **, its gives me + sign and the second footnote. Please help. |
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I don't think so because these are fields.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Dayo Mitchell" wrote in message news:BD7DEEB8.40DEF%dayomitchell_1997@NOhotmailSPA M.com.invalid... Letting Word put in asterisk, dagger, etc, and then running Find and Replace after the fact *might* work, switching dagger for double asterisk, etc. On 9/27/04 3:18 PM, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: That is the standard sequence: asterisk, dagger, double dagger, section sign, paragraph sign. These are used primarily for small numbers of footnotes (usually content rather than documentation) and often restarted on each page. For more serious documentation, you should use numbered footnotes. You can specify a custom mark but not a custom series, so you would have to mark each footnote separately. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Mary" wrote in message ... How can you make footnotes stay consistent say you use * and you want to be ** for the second footnote. I tried it and instead of giving me **, its gives me + sign and the second footnote. Please help. |
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I don't think so because these are fields.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Dayo Mitchell" wrote in message news:BD7DEEB8.40DEF%dayomitchell_1997@NOhotmailSPA M.com.invalid... Letting Word put in asterisk, dagger, etc, and then running Find and Replace after the fact *might* work, switching dagger for double asterisk, etc. On 9/27/04 3:18 PM, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: That is the standard sequence: asterisk, dagger, double dagger, section sign, paragraph sign. These are used primarily for small numbers of footnotes (usually content rather than documentation) and often restarted on each page. For more serious documentation, you should use numbered footnotes. You can specify a custom mark but not a custom series, so you would have to mark each footnote separately. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Mary" wrote in message ... How can you make footnotes stay consistent say you use * and you want to be ** for the second footnote. I tried it and instead of giving me **, its gives me + sign and the second footnote. Please help. |
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Right, good point. (I couldn't test it b/c it was too much trouble to
figure out how to get a dagger into my Replace box, re our other conversation on special characters.) By the way, to the Original Poster--to request Word offer the asterisk sequence, send an email to , OR post a Suggestion on the newsgroups, but ONLY if you see the Suggestions option offered (not all web portals have it). Last time this question came up, someone informed me privately that the asterisk sequence was a legal requirement. Dayo On 9/27/04 7:23 PM, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I don't think so because these are fields. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Dayo Mitchell" wrote in message news:BD7DEEB8.40DEF%dayomitchell_1997@NOhotmailSPA M.com.invalid... Letting Word put in asterisk, dagger, etc, and then running Find and Replace after the fact *might* work, switching dagger for double asterisk, etc. On 9/27/04 3:18 PM, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: That is the standard sequence: asterisk, dagger, double dagger, section sign, paragraph sign. These are used primarily for small numbers of footnotes (usually content rather than documentation) and often restarted on each page. For more serious documentation, you should use numbered footnotes. You can specify a custom mark but not a custom series, so you would have to mark each footnote separately. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Mary" wrote in message ... How can you make footnotes stay consistent say you use * and you want to be ** for the second footnote. I tried it and instead of giving me **, its gives me + sign and the second footnote. Please help. |
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Until MS makes that numbering style an option, you could use the macro
below to toggle between regular footnotes and the asterisk footnote style. If you use the macro, you can't have mixed footnote references (some AutoNumbered, others custom numbered). On the other hand, it will fix messed up footnotes if you don't *want* mixed numbering styles. Regards, Klaus Sub ToggleAsteriskFootnotes() Dim myFootnote As Footnote Dim boolCustom As Boolean Dim i As Long, iOld As Long ' first footnote reference = "*" ? boolCustom = _ (AscW(ActiveDocument.Footnotes(1).Reference.Text) = 42) If boolCustom = True Then For i = ActiveDocument.Footnotes.Count To 1 Step -1 Set myFootnote = ActiveDocument.Footnotes(i) myFootnote.Range.Copy myFootnote.Reference.Select myFootnote.Delete ActiveDocument.Footnotes.Add Selection.Range Selection.Footnotes(1).Range.Paste ActiveDocument.Footnotes(i).Reference.Font.Name = _ ActiveDocument.Styles(wdStyleFootnoteReference).Fo nt.Name Next i Else For i = ActiveDocument.Footnotes.Count To 1 Step -1 iOld = ActiveDocument.Footnotes(i).Index Set myFootnote = ActiveDocument.Footnotes(i) myFootnote.Range.Copy myFootnote.Reference.Select myFootnote.Delete ActiveDocument.Footnotes.Add _ Range:=Selection.Range, _ Reference:=String(iOld, "*") Selection.Footnotes(1).Range.Paste ActiveDocument.Footnotes(i).Reference.Font.Name = _ ActiveDocument.Styles(wdStyleFootnoteReference).Fo nt.Name Next i End If End Sub |
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