footnote reference font

D

diablo

Hello

Is there a way to have a different font for the footnote reference number
that appears in the document text and that, that appears at the bottom of
the page?

Thanks for any help

Kal
 
J

Jezebel

Yes. The footnote reference -- in the body of the document -- is formatted
using the Footnote Reference style (by default, underlying paragraph style
+superscript). The footnote text uses the Footnote Text style (by default,
normal +8pt) You can re-define these styles same as any other styles.
 
D

Daiya Mitchell

But you can't define the number in the text to be different from the number
in the footnote, because they both use the same style, Footnote Reference.

One possibility--after creating the footnotes, do a Find & Replace that
finds everything in Footnote Reference style and applies your desired
formatting to it. Try this on a copy--but if you put the cursor in the
footnotes before beginning the Find and Replace, it should just search the
notes and then stop without going on to the main text. Different font sounds
like it will look *really* weird, though.

Perhaps see also:
I want the numbers in my footnotes not to be superscripted, and I want the
numbers to be followed by a dot and a tab
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/UnSuperscptFnotes.htm
 
J

Jezebel

But you can't define the number in the text to be different from the
number
in the footnote, because they both use the same style, Footnote Reference.
Click to expand...

They are inserted that way, but there's nothing to stop you applying a
different character style to one or other. Other than the tedium of doing
it. Simplest would be to format Footnote Reference as you want it in the
footnote itself, then do a F&R to replace that style with another in the
body.
 
J

Jan Byrd

You CAN redefine the text in the Footnote Reference Number to be different
than the text in the Footnote Text as follows:

Insert a footnote into a document. On the menu bar click Format, Reveal
Formatting and the Reveal Formatting box will appear to the right of your
document. Highlight the Footnote Reference Number in the document text.
“Character Style: Footnote Reference Number†will appear in the Reveal
Formatting box to the right of your document. Double click on “Character
Style†and the Style dialog box will open with Footnote Reference already
selected. Next click on Modify, Format, Font and in the Font dialog box
select the Font, Font Style, Size you want and under Effects click
Superscript. Then click Okay to close the Font dialog box; in the lower left
corner of the Modify Style dialog box check the box that is next to “Add to
template.†Then click Okay to close the Modify Style dialog box; click Apply
in the Style dialog box and Close. This will permanently change the Footnote
Reference Number in this and every new document you create.
 
D

Daiya Mitchell

Hey Jan Byrd--this is the third time you've given the wrong answer to the
same problem.

Modifying the Footnote Reference style does *not* solve anything. The
problem is that Word uses the Footnote Reference style to format the number
in *both* the main text and in the note. So people who want the number in
the text to look different from the number in the note run into a problem,
cause the default setting uses the same style. Redefining the style is just
going to change the number in both text and note, not solving the problem.

Why don't you read the other answers on these threads for better solutions?
 
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