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How to start a footnote from a number other than 1
I'm glad you've managed to get the correct numbering for footnotes.
As far as master documents are concerned, I'd just like to clarify that I never suggested that they are the same as using INCLUDETEXT fields. In my opinion, however, the fields do the job sufficiently well (and they are safer). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Hope Hare" wrote in message ... "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 ... 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 |
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