Footnote numbering

[Val]

Hello

I'm trying to help a doctoral student format her
dissertation using Word 2002 and we're having some
problems with footnote numbering. Her dissertation has
multiple chapters and the school's guidelines specify
that footnotes in each chapter must start at 1 and be
numbered continously through the chapter.

This is easily accomplished in most of her chapters by
inserting a section break and telling word to number the
section separately - but it will only start at 1. Our
problem is that in one of her capters she has a page that
can only be laid out in landscape which of course
requires section breaks. This throws off the numbering
after the landscape page.

I tried to get word to play nice and start at 3 instead
of 1, but it didn't want to. I've tried a number of ways
to trick word, but they haven't been successful.

Anyone have an idea of how to get around this (besides
breaking her dissertation into multiple files?)

Thank You

Val

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP - DELETE UPPERCASE CHARACT]

Hi Val,

I don't have access to a machine with 2002 on it at the moment, but if it is
the same as 2003, the footnote settings can be made to apply on a Section by
Section basis. Therefore, you can have the numbers "Continuous" for
particular Sections, but start at 1 for others.

This setting is in the Apply changes to pulldown in the Footnotes dialog.

Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the
benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded
directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis.

Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP