I've just noticed what something about footnote styles that I find confusing
and am wondering if anyone has an explanation. The "Footnote reference"
style appears to be used for two situations. (1) for the inserted numeric
reference inside the body of the document, and (2) for the matching numeric
reference inside the footnote pane.

What's confusing to me is that the font size in both instances is different,
yet they are both defined with the same style name. Furthermore, if you
modify the "Footnote reference" style definition by changing the font size to
say 9pt, this then seems to change not only the font size of the reference
number in the body of the document, it also changes the font size of the
reference in the footnote pane.

I'm wondering a couple of things:
(i) why doesn't the footnote reference in the body of the document have its
own style name and definition separate from that of the footnote reference in
the footnote pane?
(ii) Assuming there's a good reason for using the same style name for both
situations, how does one adjust the style definition of one situation without
affecting the other?

Thanks for any help with this.

Lloyd



I regularly have to troubleshoot documents with over 350 footnotes. I've
noticed that footnote reference style different in text to footnote pane
version