The functionality you describe is already offered by third-party
software programs such as Endnote, ProCite, and Reference Manager.

And therefore MS will never find it profitable to add (is my guess).
Students all use Word anyhow, they don't need a watered-down bibliographic
feature to get them to buy it.

If you are a Mac user, you may also want to bookmark this page for future
reference:
See here for Google/Entourage gateway to Mac-specific newsgroups:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups



eb1983 wrote:

With so many different types of referencing it is too hard to understand them
all. With footnote/reference wizard, users would be able to fill in
specified blanks such as author, title, date, publisher, page number, etc.
Then they could choose the format that they need, ie. MLA or APA. This would
make report writting 100% easier =)
currently I am using the Mac version of Word, but I also use newer PC
versions

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