[Frank Williams]

I am used to WordPerfect. I want my footnotes to appear in my legal briefs
and memoranda the way they appear in books. A 10 point number on the left
margin, followed by a period. A paragraph with a hanging indent with the
margin of the left side of the second and subsequent lines aligned 1/4" from
the left margin, the right margin justified, and one line space between
footnotes. I want this to be the default setting upon all my document
templates, particularly the Normal template.

I would appreciate any help you can give me. Right now, I have to format
each footnote pane individually and I have the same Microsoft superscript
number for the next footnote with no space between the footnotes. That is
screwed up. As Microsoft has been copying Mac for Vista, they should have
long ago copied WordPerfect for many of its better features, including
keystrokes for functions without having to use the mouse for everything.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...scptFnotes.htm

--
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.

"Frank Williams" Frank wrote in message
...
I am used to WordPerfect. I want my footnotes to appear in my legal
briefs
and memoranda the way they appear in books. A 10 point number on the left
margin, followed by a period. A paragraph with a hanging indent with the
margin of the left side of the second and subsequent lines aligned 1/4"
from
the left margin, the right margin justified, and one line space between
footnotes. I want this to be the default setting upon all my document
templates, particularly the Normal template.

I would appreciate any help you can give me. Right now, I have to format
each footnote pane individually and I have the same Microsoft superscript
number for the next footnote with no space between the footnotes. That is
screwed up. As Microsoft has been copying Mac for Vista, they should have
long ago copied WordPerfect for many of its better features, including
keystrokes for functions without having to use the mouse for everything.

[Frank Williams[_2_]]

I have not tried it yet, but it appears that it will. It is exactly on
point. Now I have another question. I also like to embolden the footnote in
the text. Do you have any ideas how to do that.

Thanks for the first heads-up.

Frank Williams


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...scptFnotes.htm

--
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.

"Frank Williams" Frank wrote in message
...
I am used to WordPerfect. I want my footnotes to appear in my legal
briefs
and memoranda the way they appear in books. A 10 point number on the left
margin, followed by a period. A paragraph with a hanging indent with the
margin of the left side of the second and subsequent lines aligned 1/4"
from
the left margin, the right margin justified, and one line space between
footnotes. I want this to be the default setting upon all my document
templates, particularly the Normal template.

I would appreciate any help you can give me. Right now, I have to format
each footnote pane individually and I have the same Microsoft superscript
number for the next footnote with no space between the footnotes. That is
screwed up. As Microsoft has been copying Mac for Vista, they should have
long ago copied WordPerfect for many of its better features, including
keystrokes for functions without having to use the mouse for everything.

[Graham Mayor]

Select the footnote, Format style footnote reference. Change the style
text to whatever you want. Check the add to template check box.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Frank Williams wrote:
I have not tried it yet, but it appears that it will. It is exactly
on point. Now I have another question. I also like to embolden the
footnote in the text. Do you have any ideas how to do that.

Thanks for the first heads-up.

Frank Williams


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...scptFnotes.htm

--
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.

"Frank Williams" Frank wrote in
message ...
I am used to WordPerfect. I want my footnotes to appear in my
legal briefs and memoranda the way they appear in books. A 10
point number on the left margin, followed by a period. A paragraph
with a hanging indent with the margin of the left side of the
second and subsequent lines aligned 1/4" from the left margin, the
right margin justified, and one line space between footnotes. I
want this to be the default setting upon all my document templates,
particularly the Normal template.

I would appreciate any help you can give me. Right now, I have to
format each footnote pane individually and I have the same
Microsoft superscript number for the next footnote with no space
between the footnotes. That is screwed up. As Microsoft has been
copying Mac for Vista, they should have long ago copied WordPerfect
for many of its better features, including keystrokes for functions
without having to use the mouse for everything.

[Frank Williams[_2_]]

That worked to make the footnote in the text bold, but it added a
supernumerary superscript bold footnote number in the footnote at the tab
site of the hanging indent for the Footnote Text. If I tried to back up and
erase it, I lost the normal footnote number at the left margin and the
superscript bold footnote number went to the left margin. I discovered I
could select just the superscript footnote number and delete it. That would
return me to the tab insert for my hanging indent, ready to type my footnote.

Microsoft should have spent more time on the footnotes. Years ago, when
Radio Shack had a program called Scripsit, that program had no provision for
footnoting. Of course, you cannot sell many programs to law firms if the
word processor will not footnote. I worked out a way to footnote in that
program (although the footnotes would not move to another page or renumber
themselves automatically because I was using a mere text-insertion technique)
and spent hours on the telephone with people from Fort Worth telling them how
to do it. The first time I asked for help from Radio Shack, they wanted to
charge me. Bad move. After three Radio Shack computers, I never have bought
another Radio Shack product -- not even a flashlight bulb. At least
Microsoft's Community Discussion Group site lets you get help from people who
know -- not usually Microsoft employees.

Thanks for your help. If you figure a work-around that will keep the
Footnote Reference from inserting an extra footnote number in my footnote, I
would appreciate receiving that information.

Frank E. Williams, Jr.


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Select the footnote, Format style footnote reference. Change the style
text to whatever you want. Check the add to template check box.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Frank Williams wrote:
I have not tried it yet, but it appears that it will. It is exactly
on point. Now I have another question. I also like to embolden the
footnote in the text. Do you have any ideas how to do that.

Thanks for the first heads-up.

Frank Williams


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...scptFnotes.htm

--
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.

"Frank Williams" Frank wrote in
message ...
I am used to WordPerfect. I want my footnotes to appear in my
legal briefs and memoranda the way they appear in books. A 10
point number on the left margin, followed by a period. A paragraph
with a hanging indent with the margin of the left side of the
second and subsequent lines aligned 1/4" from the left margin, the
right margin justified, and one line space between footnotes. I
want this to be the default setting upon all my document templates,
particularly the Normal template.

I would appreciate any help you can give me. Right now, I have to
format each footnote pane individually and I have the same
Microsoft superscript number for the next footnote with no space
between the footnotes. That is screwed up. As Microsoft has been
copying Mac for Vista, they should have long ago copied WordPerfect
for many of its better features, including keystrokes for functions
without having to use the mouse for everything.

[Graham Mayor]

Word uses the same paragraph style for the footnote reference wherever it
appears, hence if you change it in the text it will change in the footnote
area also. You could manually format the number in the footnote area
differently if you wanted. I don't see how you could have two numbers in the
footnote area unless you have applied a numbering attribute style to the
Footnote Text style?

The correspondents in these forums are not Microsoft employees. This is a
peer group forum.
--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Frank Williams wrote:
That worked to make the footnote in the text bold, but it added a
supernumerary superscript bold footnote number in the footnote at the
tab site of the hanging indent for the Footnote Text. If I tried to
back up and erase it, I lost the normal footnote number at the left
margin and the superscript bold footnote number went to the left
margin. I discovered I could select just the superscript footnote
number and delete it. That would return me to the tab insert for my
hanging indent, ready to type my footnote.

Microsoft should have spent more time on the footnotes. Years ago,
when Radio Shack had a program called Scripsit, that program had no
provision for footnoting. Of course, you cannot sell many programs
to law firms if the word processor will not footnote. I worked out a
way to footnote in that program (although the footnotes would not
move to another page or renumber themselves automatically because I
was using a mere text-insertion technique) and spent hours on the
telephone with people from Fort Worth telling them how to do it. The
first time I asked for help from Radio Shack, they wanted to charge
me. Bad move. After three Radio Shack computers, I never have
bought another Radio Shack product -- not even a flashlight bulb. At
least Microsoft's Community Discussion Group site lets you get help
from people who know -- not usually Microsoft employees.

Thanks for your help. If you figure a work-around that will keep the
Footnote Reference from inserting an extra footnote number in my
footnote, I would appreciate receiving that information.

Frank E. Williams, Jr.


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Select the footnote, Format style footnote reference. Change the
style text to whatever you want. Check the add to template check box.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Frank Williams wrote:
I have not tried it yet, but it appears that it will. It is exactly
on point. Now I have another question. I also like to embolden the
footnote in the text. Do you have any ideas how to do that.

Thanks for the first heads-up.

Frank Williams


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...scptFnotes.htm

--
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.

"Frank Williams" Frank wrote
in message
...
I am used to WordPerfect. I want my footnotes to appear in my
legal briefs and memoranda the way they appear in books. A 10
point number on the left margin, followed by a period. A
paragraph with a hanging indent with the margin of the left side
of the second and subsequent lines aligned 1/4" from the left
margin, the right margin justified, and one line space between
footnotes. I want this to be the default setting upon all my
document templates, particularly the Normal template.

I would appreciate any help you can give me. Right now, I have to
format each footnote pane individually and I have the same
Microsoft superscript number for the next footnote with no space
between the footnotes. That is screwed up. As Microsoft has been
copying Mac for Vista, they should have long ago copied
WordPerfect for many of its better features, including keystrokes
for functions without having to use the mouse for everything.

[Daiya Mitchell]

Side note: via Tools | Customize, you can assign a keystroke to any
feature that is predefined in Word. You can also assign a keystroke to
features you create--macros to do a set of actions, AutoText, etc.

Frank Williams wrote:
they should have
long ago copied WordPerfect for many of its better features, including
keystrokes for functions without having to use the mouse for everything.