There certainly is an option, in recent versions of Word, to set footnote
restart options for individual sections (look in the footnote options dialog
box). I never managed to get this to work in Word 2003, but in Word 2007 it
seems to work.
A word of warning: Master documents tend to corrupt, so you may not want to
use them. See
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/Wh...ocsCorrupt.htm.
For an alternative approach, see
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/tblsfldsfm...ldscontent.htm.
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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
"Nabil" wrote in message
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Hi
I have been browsing for a solution to a problem about footnotes. Is it
possible to start a footnote from a certain number other than 1 in a new
section?
A master document has subdocuments for book chapters. The footnotes in
each
chapter should start from 1. In chapter 1 I have 4 footnotes. In Chapter
2, I
inserted a new section to start the footnotes from 1. I have 12 footnotes
in
chapter 2 so far. Then I had to insert a section break to get a landscaped
page within chapter 2. Then I inserted another section break to go back to
the portrait layout. In the new section for the portrait page that follow
the
landscaped page when inserting a footnote I get footnote 1 instead of
footnote 13. I wonder if anything can be done to cure this or Microsoft
needs
to make the footnotes more flexible. Did I miss anything?
Regards