Hi Robert,
As an illustration of what Word does with the footnotes using its built in functionallity, as far as how much space Word 'sees' for
space at the end of a page and why you may indeed be as Suzanne mentions, inviting trouble later on (unraveling spaghetti to
reconnect two pieces if one strand breaks)
1. Create a new Word document and type some text.
2. Insert about 6-10 footnotes on a single page using Insert Footnote and typing in any text for each one.
3. Go to the footnotes and turn on display of nonprinting characters (the pilcrow/paragraph mark) in the toolbar/Ribbon.
4. At the end of each footnote, just before the paragraph mark press the Tab key to insert a tab.
5. Select the character and paragraph mark at the end of the first footnote and use
Word 2003: Format=Font
Word 2007: Home=Format launcher(bottom right of 'Format)=Font
and apply 'Hidden' to the selected items.
6. Select the tab and paragraph mark for each additional footnote and press F4 to also apply the hidden attribute to those items.
7. Use the Pilcrow on the Ribbon/Toolbar to toggle off/on the display of non-printing characters and you should see the display
jump back and forth to separate lines for each footnote vs multiple footnotes on one line. Now print or print preview and note that
although you see only one line for Footnotes, Word still 'sees' multiple lines, so preserves space for 'n' lines of separate
footnotes at the bottom of the page (i.e. you may not gain any space on the printed page).
It will be interesting to see if your alternate method or Tom's would be an improvement or if using EndNote X1 (3rd party product
from
http://thomsonresearchsoft.com ) or other approach gives you a workable solution.
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"Robert" wrote in message ...
Hi. Thanks for the reply.
Other than the last sentacne i really dident understand what you meant.
I havent given up yet.
As im considering using this multi-footnote per line format for a number of
documents i had come up with the following idea that may suit my needs.
I has considered making all footnotes into endnotes. Then i would create
linked text boxes at the bottom of each page. somehow i would have the text
of the endnotes autmaticlly linked to the textboxes and as i type endnotes,
the text would appear in the text box. i could then format at will. i had
even thought of having the footnote referance number all typed out in the
text box, and as i type the endnotes, the text drops it self into the
corresponding text box footnote number. if i could creat a template for this
then i could use it for all my documents. (the repitiaion of the endnotes as
footnotes wouldent matter, because all i need is the printed matter, and i
would just print the footnotes leaving of the endnotes).
Noow the only catch is how to do that. crossreferancing dosent work. so ive
tryied with bookmarks, but even that dosent seem to help because i can only
bookmark the endnote AFTER its been written, which would mean the tedious
task of booking marking every endnote AFTER it was written, and would also
kill my concept of a template.
Any ideas how to link unwriiten endnote text to a text box?
Sorry for the rambling,
Thanks
--
Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP
*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*