Footnote formatting problem

[Suzan]

We are going to (finally) move from WordPerfect to Word and I was given several docs to re-format. I am having two problems with one

1) the old doc has the footnote reference marks in parenthese
2) the footnote text has to have the hanging indent after the number so that the text is left aligned about .5" after the number. Example

1 blah bla
blah bla

2 etc

I can go in and manually fix both of these problems. However, these documents will contain 15-20 footnotes and are done by the owner of the company. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

[tjtjjtjt]

I made you task a little more complicated than it had to be. Instead of converted to Endnotes and then converting back to Footnotes, do this
View|Footnote
This will open a Pane at the bottom of the screen in which you can select all the Footnotes, apply a Style to them, then Modify the Style to suit your needs in Format|Style

tj

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

A better solution is to modify the Footnote Text style to have a hanging
indent.

I made you task a little more complicated than it had to be. Instead of

converted to Endnotes and then converting back to Footnotes, do this:

View|Footnotes
This will open a Pane at the bottom of the screen in which you can select

all the Footnotes, apply a Style to them, then Modify the Style to suit your
needs in Format|Style.

 

[tjtjjtjt]

Suzanne
The problem I had with that is this: when I open the WordPerfect document in Word, Word tranfers the Footnotes, but it doesn't put them in Footnote Text Style. I had to set the Style myself--Word XP formatted the footnotes in Normal, so altering Footnote Text Style wouldn't have done any good without first applying the Style
Word 2003 gave me Footnote Reference Style instead of Normal

t

----- Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: ----

A better solution is to modify the Footnote Text style to have a hangin
indent.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Yeow! Well, this is pretty well covered in "WordPerfect to Word converters
(and why none of them are perfect)" at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/WordPerfectConverters.htm

Suzanne,
The problem I had with that is this: when I open the WordPerfect document

in Word, Word tranfers the Footnotes, but it doesn't put them in Footnote
Text Style. I had to set the Style myself--Word XP formatted the footnotes
in Normal, so altering Footnote Text Style wouldn't have done any good
without first applying the Style.