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Enter a footnote
How can I enter a footnote?
I've been reading the help files for half an hour and looking in the menu items of word 2003 and I cannot find it. I did find irritating explination on what a footnote is, and what the difference is with an endnote, how they are numbered. I just want a instruction like MenuItemA-SubItemB-OptionC-Enter your text. Sorry I am a bit frustrated at the moment. |
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Insert | Reference | Footnote. After you've set the footnote defaults you
want in a given document, you can use Ctrl+Alt+F to open the pane for a new footnote. I don't know how you can have been "reading the help files for half an hour" without finding the topic "Insert a footnote or an endnote," which is the fifth listing (I'll grant you, it should be the first) if you type "insert footnote" in the "Type a question for help" box. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Marc" wrote in message ... How can I enter a footnote? I've been reading the help files for half an hour and looking in the menu items of word 2003 and I cannot find it. I did find irritating explination on what a footnote is, and what the difference is with an endnote, how they are numbered. I just want a instruction like MenuItemA-SubItemB-OptionC-Enter your text. Sorry I am a bit frustrated at the moment. |
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Did you really do the search. Look up Footnote and you will find an entry
entitled "Insert a Footnote or Endnote". While this is opened, I have question to answer a question that has caused an argument with a collegue, does my period terminating the previous sentence go inside or outside the closing quote mark? "Marc" wrote: How can I enter a footnote? I've been reading the help files for half an hour and looking in the menu items of word 2003 and I cannot find it. I did find irritating explination on what a footnote is, and what the difference is with an endnote, how they are numbered. I just want a instruction like MenuItemA-SubItemB-OptionC-Enter your text. Sorry I am a bit frustrated at the moment. |
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Marsh:
It depends on whether or not you're following a given style guide, and if so, which style guide you're following. In general, in US English publications, periods and commas go inside the ending quotation mark. In UK English publications, all punctuation goes outside the ending quotation mark. There are many exceptions to these general rules, but in the case you presented, for a US publication, I'd put the period inside the last quotation mark. Bear -- Windows XP, Word 2000 |
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Thanks Bear. Then if I were to quote you,
"It depends on whether or not you're following a given style guide, and if so, which style guide you're following." The sentence above with the quotes is actually terminated with quote mark rather than period. I do not question you correctness, just 30 years ago, in the Los Angeles, California schools, the taught it the other way. I guess I owe my collegue a beer. "Bear" wrote: Marsh: It depends on whether or not you're following a given style guide, and if so, which style guide you're following. In general, in US English publications, periods and commas go inside the ending quotation mark. In UK English publications, all punctuation goes outside the ending quotation mark. There are many exceptions to these general rules, but in the case you presented, for a US publication, I'd put the period inside the last quotation mark. Bear -- Windows XP, Word 2000 |
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Sorry. You can always argue that you were using the British convention
because it's more consistent and makes more sense. I mean if there's a beer at stake... Bear -- Windows XP, Word 2000 |
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"Marsh" Did you really do the search. Look up Footnote and you will find an entry entitled "Insert a Footnote or Endnote". Yes. It's the 13th article and it's just outside the window. I did not scroll, did not see the bar, and tried to find it in the other 12 articles listed Ah, sometimes I am just a bit blind I fear. And I also did not think of a footnote as a part of 'references', in the insert menu. Sorry for the silly question but I REALLY just could not find it. |
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