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Footnotes in word 2003
The support staff in our institution create a variety of casebooks for
students by combining a number of word and word perfect documents. I have a very similar or identical problem entering new footnotes into these combined documents. You would expect Microsoft office suite / word 2003 in my case to be far superior and trouble free or relatively easier than the earlier versions in handling such issues. However I cannot find a solution yet to solve this problem. When you try to insert a new footnote in the document , for example inbetween 140 and 141 , then the new foter should be re-numbered as 141 and all the footnotes after that have to be renumbered by adding +1. It was really strange to see number 50 being given to the new footnote. Just to be on the safeside I had downloaded the Service Pack 1 for office 2003 and it didnot solve the problem. Any help on this issue would be appreciated. Thanks Thayalan Faculty of Law University of manitoba Canada |
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If these documents were imported from WordPerfect, I don't think you can do
anything about this. Footnotes don't convert well. We do not know whether different modes of importing from WordPerfect make a difference. E.g., you can export as .doc from WP, or use Word to open the WP doc (I think, maybe), or you could save as .rtf from WP and open in Word. It's possible that different methods produce different results, but I don't recall anyone checking. This has become an FAQ, even: http://daiya.mvps.org/biblio.htm#RenumberNotes On 6/20/05 9:50 AM, "Thayalan" wrote: The support staff in our institution create a variety of casebooks for students by combining a number of word and word perfect documents. I have a very similar or identical problem entering new footnotes into these combined documents. You would expect Microsoft office suite / word 2003 in my case to be far superior and trouble free or relatively easier than the earlier versions in handling such issues. However I cannot find a solution yet to solve this problem. When you try to insert a new footnote in the document , for example inbetween 140 and 141 , then the new foter should be re-numbered as 141 and all the footnotes after that have to be renumbered by adding +1. It was really strange to see number 50 being given to the new footnote. Just to be on the safeside I had downloaded the Service Pack 1 for office 2003 and it didnot solve the problem. Any help on this issue would be appreciated. Thanks Thayalan Faculty of Law University of manitoba Canada -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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