[Hope Hare]

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

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.

--
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


The include text option doesn't begin to do what a masterdocument can do. With very careful control of styles, I have managed to use the masterdocument feature in Word 2003 to produce large reports with many chapters. This means that members of the team can work on the chapters simultaneously, and their changes are automatically included in the masterdoc. The masterdocument allows me to format the whole document consistently, and number the tables, boxes, and figures sequentially, producing a TOC. The footnote numbering is a problem, as you say. Word decided that footnotes could only be numbered continuously, restarting on each page, or restarting on each section--unlike captions, which are numbered by chapters. Footnotes have to be manually renumbered when there are section breaks in a chapter. To do that, you find the first footnote you need to renumber, select it, go to insert footnote, and in the custom mark box, insert the number you want. Then click apply.
This works in Word 2003. Have no idea about 2007, and am not anxious to find
out either...
Hope