This is a requirement in certain government/legal styles--a holdover from
typewriter days, when superscript was not as common or easy, so footnote
numbers were put in parens or brackets (as is often still done in Web pages,
emails, NG posts, etc.).

--
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.

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 14:21:02 -0800, Ian
wrote:

When I insert a footnote in Word 2003 (using Windows XP) the footnote
reference mark is a single number in superscript -- is it possible to
make
this number show up within parenthesis? In other words the mark in the
body
of the document will go from 3 to (3) and the same in the footnote
section,
from 3 to (3)...Thanks!

There's no way to do it automatically. If you insist, you can type
your own parentheses and format them as superscripts. Seems to me like
a lot of pointless work...

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org