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How to do Q&A, quizzes, exercises, elaborations, etc.?
I am writing a textbook in Word 2000, soon to be Word 2003. I want to
make the mainline of the text as brief and concise as possible, but I would also like to provide additional information such as is often put into footnotes, side bars, appendices, etc. I want this supplementary information to be out of the main text. I don't want to clutter up the mainline text with sidebars or footnotes or any such device. Ideally, I would like the whole thing to be electronic so that I can put hypertext tags in the document and the user can drill down when needed, but that is not feasible right now. In the meantime, I would appreciate suggestions for the best way to structure this document. I would like to put all of the supplementary information in an appendix in some kind of numbered list so that I can put references to the individual item in the main line text, like an endnote or header reference. Some of the information will be just a sentence or two, but some may be more than a page. I have used numbered lists and headers, but I have had problems with the references getting all screwed up or even having Word crash if the text gets moved around very much. Can anyone suggest a way to approach this that is reliable? Thanks -- Running Word 2K SP-3 (9.0.6926) PC: HP Omnibook 6000 OS: Win 2K SP-4 (5.00.2195) Email: Usenet-20031220 at spamex.com (11/03/04) |
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use OpenOffice? Frame? Ventura?
(oh- you don't want to use sidebars, etc...) hmm- maybe use footnotes with a brief note, and a link to the appendix where the expanded material is? The link could refer the reader to chapter/page number, or whatever. This way, it should be as reliable as footnotes, anyway. cheers Jay |
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What's wrong with using endnotes? Which work just like footnotes, only the
text is at the end of the document instead of the bottom of the page. I believe if you then Save as HTML, the endnotes become hyperlinks. On 3/25/05 12:14 AM, "Top Spin" wrote: I am writing a textbook in Word 2000, soon to be Word 2003. I want to make the mainline of the text as brief and concise as possible, but I would also like to provide additional information such as is often put into footnotes, side bars, appendices, etc. I want this supplementary information to be out of the main text. I don't want to clutter up the mainline text with sidebars or footnotes or any such device. Ideally, I would like the whole thing to be electronic so that I can put hypertext tags in the document and the user can drill down when needed, but that is not feasible right now. In the meantime, I would appreciate suggestions for the best way to structure this document. I would like to put all of the supplementary information in an appendix in some kind of numbered list so that I can put references to the individual item in the main line text, like an endnote or header reference. Some of the information will be just a sentence or two, but some may be more than a page. I have used numbered lists and headers, but I have had problems with the references getting all screwed up or even having Word crash if the text gets moved around very much. Can anyone suggest a way to approach this that is reliable? Thanks -- Running Word 2K SP-3 (9.0.6926) PC: HP Omnibook 6000 OS: Win 2K SP-4 (5.00.2195) Email: Usenet-20031220 at spamex.com (11/03/04) -- 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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