inserting footnotes for text in table

[Kyle]

I have searched this newsgroup, MVPs.org, and MS's Knowledge Base, and
have not found an answer to what I think is a simple question:

How do you create a footnote for text in a table's cell?

I can do the whole Insert->Reference->Footnote thing and it inserts a
footnote mark at the appropriate place but I cannot enter or edit the
text of a footnote. It appears as a yellow sticky in the document
on-screen, but will not print nor display in print preview.

What am I missing? What is missing from the Word Help, the Knowledge
Base, MVPs.org and here? Or am I just as obtuse as can be?

 

[Val]

Are you editing in "normal" or print layout view?

If in "normal" (why the h*&^ it's call it that I'll never understand - they
call it "draft" in 2007!), you should get the footnote editing area at the
bottom of your screen. If not, try View/Footnotes.

In print layout view, the footnotes should be visible at the bottom of the
page.

What version of Word are you using?

 

[Kyle]

Are you editing in "normal" or print layout view?

If in "normal" (why the h*&^ it's call it that I'll never understand - they
call it "draft" in 2007!), you should get the footnote editing area at the
bottom of your screen. If not, try View/Footnotes.

Nope, no matter what view I was in, the footnotes were not visible, nor
did they display in the print preview window nor print out.

What version of Word are you using?

Word 2003, Office Professional.

 

[Kyle]

Kyle wrote:
[snip]

How do you create a footnote for text in a table's cell?

Update:

After once again searching Microsoft's Knowledge Base, etc., and even
using "the Google" I came across a couple of discussions by legal
eagles and academics saying Word can't handle footnotes in tables.

For me, changing views does nothing; going to View->Footnotes does
nothing; print preview shows no footnotes; the hard copy shows no
footnotes. When I place the cursor at the end of a line of text in my
table and choose Insert->Reference->Footnote and let Word use the
footnote default settings, the footnote doesn't appear. I can type and
the words don't appear on-screen.

BUT, if I insert an additional footnote into the document outside of
the table, suddenly the footnote inside the table appears at the bottom
of the page.

What a pain in the neck...

 

[Val]

Well that's just wierd. In examining your problem, I opened an blank
document, inserted a table, typed text in a table cell and attached a
footnote. It all worked just fine. I had no text outside the table, no
footnotes outside the table.

I my copy of Word 2003 broken?

Val

Kyle wrote:
[snip]

How do you create a footnote for text in a table's cell?

Update:

After once again searching Microsoft's Knowledge Base, etc., and even
using "the Google" I came across a couple of discussions by legal
eagles and academics saying Word can't handle footnotes in tables.

For me, changing views does nothing; going to View->Footnotes does
nothing; print preview shows no footnotes; the hard copy shows no
footnotes. When I place the cursor at the end of a line of text in my
table and choose Insert->Reference->Footnote and let Word use the
footnote default settings, the footnote doesn't appear. I can type and
the words don't appear on-screen.

BUT, if I insert an additional footnote into the document outside of
the table, suddenly the footnote inside the table appears at the bottom
of the page.

What a pain in the neck...

 

[Kyle]

Well that's just wierd. In examining your problem, I opened an blank
document, inserted a table, typed text in a table cell and attached a
footnote. It all worked just fine. I had no text outside the table, no
footnotes outside the table.

I my copy of Word 2003 broken?

It's broken in the best possible way! "It's not a bug, it's a feature."