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Change Default Endnote Number Style on Word for Mac?
I work for a publishing house whose editors use Word for PC. Production,
however, is on Macs. When Editorial sends their manuscript files to Production, the endnotes are displaying with Roman numerals. The same file shows Arabic numerals on the PC but has turned mysteriously to Arabic on the Macs. I can change the numbering style by just clicking on the first endnote reference and using the pop-up that appears to apply an Arabic style, but is there anyway to change the default setting so that that happens automatically? Probably this is just a weird Mac/PC compatibility issue that can't actually be "fixed," but I'm not sure, so I thought I'd ask. Any suggestions would be appreciated. |
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Change Default Endnote Number Style on Word for Mac?
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I don't think so.....that's a per document setting and I don't think there is a way to make it apply across all documents. One quicker alternative might be to record a macro that changes the setting, but I think it will need to be fixed per document each time the problem occurs. Re preventing the problem--does this happen with every single document? I'm a Mac user and I frequently exchange files with endnotes, and it doesn't always happen. Recently I got a document from a PC user that used 1,2,3 endnotes in the original, but somewhere when I did a Save As it randomly changed to i,ii,iii endnotes. But I've received other documents from this same person without any problems. Goth wrote: I work for a publishing house whose editors use Word for PC. Production, however, is on Macs. When Editorial sends their manuscript files to Production, the endnotes are displaying with Roman numerals. The same file shows Arabic numerals on the PC but has turned mysteriously to Arabic on the Macs. I can change the numbering style by just clicking on the first endnote reference and using the pop-up that appears to apply an Arabic style, but is there anyway to change the default setting so that that happens automatically? Probably this is just a weird Mac/PC compatibility issue that can't actually be "fixed," but I'm not sure, so I thought I'd ask. Any suggestions would be appreciated. |
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Change Default Endnote Number Style on Word for Mac?
Thanks for the rsponse, Daiya--It's actually comforting to see it happens to
other people, too. Anyway, all of the editorial departments here use Word, but only the Math department uses the footnote/endnote function. And, truly, all of the files they've submitted to Production have been afflicted with the mysterious roman-numeral conversion issue. I may ask to look on one of their PCs to see what sorts of settings they're using, but I'm sure it will just be the usual Arabic-numeral style, since that is what they get when they print some of the MS for us, and since 9frankly) I would be surprised if they even knew how to change it. If you have any other ideas, I'd appreciate it. Even a macro that we'd run per document would be useful, though I suppose it would have to be saved as an add-in so it could be used on different files. Sigh. I thought we were all suppposed to have jetpacks by now. "Goth" wrote: I work for a publishing house whose editors use Word for PC. Production, however, is on Macs. When Editorial sends their manuscript files to Production, the endnotes are displaying with Roman numerals. The same file shows Arabic numerals on the PC but has turned mysteriously to Arabic on the Macs. I can change the numbering style by just clicking on the first endnote reference and using the pop-up that appears to apply an Arabic style, but is there anyway to change the default setting so that that happens automatically? Probably this is just a weird Mac/PC compatibility issue that can't actually be "fixed," but I'm not sure, so I thought I'd ask. Any suggestions would be appreciated. |
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Change Default Endnote Number Style on Word for Mac?
FWIW, the default numbering style for endnotes is lowercase roman numerals.
No one I've talked to at MS has ever been able to explain the rationale for this, but most users who actually use endnotes change this in Normal.dot. If a document based on Normal.dot or a specific template not present on the recipient's machine is opened on a machine where this has *not* been changed in Normal.dot, it's possible that the local setting would prevail. -- 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. "Goth" wrote in message ... Thanks for the rsponse, Daiya--It's actually comforting to see it happens to other people, too. Anyway, all of the editorial departments here use Word, but only the Math department uses the footnote/endnote function. And, truly, all of the files they've submitted to Production have been afflicted with the mysterious roman-numeral conversion issue. I may ask to look on one of their PCs to see what sorts of settings they're using, but I'm sure it will just be the usual Arabic-numeral style, since that is what they get when they print some of the MS for us, and since 9frankly) I would be surprised if they even knew how to change it. If you have any other ideas, I'd appreciate it. Even a macro that we'd run per document would be useful, though I suppose it would have to be saved as an add-in so it could be used on different files. Sigh. I thought we were all suppposed to have jetpacks by now. "Goth" wrote: I work for a publishing house whose editors use Word for PC. Production, however, is on Macs. When Editorial sends their manuscript files to Production, the endnotes are displaying with Roman numerals. The same file shows Arabic numerals on the PC but has turned mysteriously to Arabic on the Macs. I can change the numbering style by just clicking on the first endnote reference and using the pop-up that appears to apply an Arabic style, but is there anyway to change the default setting so that that happens automatically? Probably this is just a weird Mac/PC compatibility issue that can't actually be "fixed," but I'm not sure, so I thought I'd ask. Any suggestions would be appreciated. |
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Change Default Endnote Number Style on Word for Mac?
Hmm--I'll have to investigate that on the editors' PCs. Thanks for the
suggestion, Suzanne! I'll post back with the result--but it won't be until later today, because I need to find an editor who won't freak out when I want to prowl about their machine. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: FWIW, the default numbering style for endnotes is lowercase roman numerals. No one I've talked to at MS has ever been able to explain the rationale for this, but most users who actually use endnotes change this in Normal.dot. If a document based on Normal.dot or a specific template not present on the recipient's machine is opened on a machine where this has *not* been changed in Normal.dot, it's possible that the local setting would prevail. -- 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. "Goth" wrote in message ... Thanks for the rsponse, Daiya--It's actually comforting to see it happens to other people, too. Anyway, all of the editorial departments here use Word, but only the Math department uses the footnote/endnote function. And, truly, all of the files they've submitted to Production have been afflicted with the mysterious roman-numeral conversion issue. I may ask to look on one of their PCs to see what sorts of settings they're using, but I'm sure it will just be the usual Arabic-numeral style, since that is what they get when they print some of the MS for us, and since 9frankly) I would be surprised if they even knew how to change it. If you have any other ideas, I'd appreciate it. Even a macro that we'd run per document would be useful, though I suppose it would have to be saved as an add-in so it could be used on different files. Sigh. I thought we were all suppposed to have jetpacks by now. "Goth" wrote: I work for a publishing house whose editors use Word for PC. Production, however, is on Macs. When Editorial sends their manuscript files to Production, the endnotes are displaying with Roman numerals. The same file shows Arabic numerals on the PC but has turned mysteriously to Arabic on the Macs. I can change the numbering style by just clicking on the first endnote reference and using the pop-up that appears to apply an Arabic style, but is there anyway to change the default setting so that that happens automatically? Probably this is just a weird Mac/PC compatibility issue that can't actually be "fixed," but I'm not sure, so I thought I'd ask. Any suggestions would be appreciated. |
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Change Default Endnote Number Style on Word for Mac?
Late PS:
You should be able to record a macro that works, as far as I know, and save it in some global template/add-in in Production, for a single-click solution. But maybe Suzanne's suggestion re changing Normal will work. Goth wrote: Thanks for the rsponse, Daiya--It's actually comforting to see it happens to other people, too. Anyway, all of the editorial departments here use Word, but only the Math department uses the footnote/endnote function. And, truly, all of the files they've submitted to Production have been afflicted with the mysterious roman-numeral conversion issue. I may ask to look on one of their PCs to see what sorts of settings they're using, but I'm sure it will just be the usual Arabic-numeral style, since that is what they get when they print some of the MS for us, and since 9frankly) I would be surprised if they even knew how to change it. If you have any other ideas, I'd appreciate it. Even a macro that we'd run per document would be useful, though I suppose it would have to be saved as an add-in so it could be used on different files. Sigh. I thought we were all suppposed to have jetpacks by now. "Goth" wrote: I work for a publishing house whose editors use Word for PC. Production, however, is on Macs. When Editorial sends their manuscript files to Production, the endnotes are displaying with Roman numerals. The same file shows Arabic numerals on the PC but has turned mysteriously to Arabic on the Macs. I can change the numbering style by just clicking on the first endnote reference and using the pop-up that appears to apply an Arabic style, but is there anyway to change the default setting so that that happens automatically? Probably this is just a weird Mac/PC compatibility issue that can't actually be "fixed," but I'm not sure, so I thought I'd ask. Any suggestions would be appreciated. |
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