How to do Q&A, quizzes, exercises, elaborations, etc.?

[Top Spin]

I am writing a textbook in Word 2000, soon to be Word 2003. I want to
make the mainline of the text as brief and concise as possible, but I
would also like to provide additional information such as is often put
into footnotes, side bars, appendices, etc.

I want this supplementary information to be out of the main text. I
don't want to clutter up the mainline text with sidebars or footnotes
or any such device.

Ideally, I would like the whole thing to be electronic so that I can
put hypertext tags in the document and the user can drill down when
needed, but that is not feasible right now.

In the meantime, I would appreciate suggestions for the best way to
structure this document.

I would like to put all of the supplementary information in an
appendix in some kind of numbered list so that I can put references to
the individual item in the main line text, like an endnote or header
reference. Some of the information will be just a sentence or two, but
some may be more than a page.

I have used numbered lists and headers, but I have had problems with
the references getting all screwed up or even having Word crash if the
text gets moved around very much.

Can anyone suggest a way to approach this that is reliable?

Thanks

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Running Word 2K SP-3 (9.0.6926)
PC: HP Omnibook 6000
OS: Win 2K SP-4 (5.00.2195)
Email: Usenet-20031220 at spamex.com
(11/03/04)

 

[jay]

use OpenOffice? Frame? Ventura?

(oh- you <don't> want to use sidebars, etc...)
hmm- maybe use footnotes with a brief note, and a link to the appendix
where the expanded material is? The link could refer the reader to
chapter/page number, or whatever.
This way, it should be as reliable as footnotes, anyway.
cheers
Jay

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

What's wrong with using endnotes? Which work just like footnotes, only the
text is at the end of the document instead of the bottom of the page.

I believe if you then Save as HTML, the endnotes become hyperlinks.