Option to have either footnotes or endnotes start with a number?

[Paul]

I sometimes use endnotes, other times footnotes--both signified by Arabic
numerals, and am constantly switching the last selected option to the other
type. Is there any way to get Word to automatically make whatever I use first
(either footnotes or endnotes) to use arabic numerals? Any macro or some such
option?
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Paul

MS Office 2003
Vista Home Basic SP1
Dell Inspiron 1501

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Footnotes use arabic numerals by default; you can make endnotes use arabic
numerals by default by changing the number format in Normal.dot. You can
insert a footnote using the default format with Ctrl+Alt+F, an endnote with
Ctrl+Alt+D.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Paul]

Great. Thanks--for the hint to save it to normal.dot, as well as the shortcut
for th endnote. I've been using Ctr-Alt+F for footnotes--didn't realize D
would do it for Endnotes.
--
Paul

MS Office 2003
Vista Home Basic SP1
Dell Inspiron 1501

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Yes, I find Alt+Ctrl+D quite difficult to remember--and I never have figured
out what genius suggested that people want to use lowercase roman numerals
for endnotes!

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Paul]

They most likely figured that if you were to use both endnotes and footnotes
in the same doc, you woulnd't want them using the same numbering scheme--true
enough, but this is a rather unlikely scenario. The one I am in (using one
only, but always want Arabic numerals for both) is probably much more common.
Oh well.
--
Paul

MS Office 2003
Vista Home Basic SP1
Dell Inspiron 1501

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I sometimes use endnotes for source documentation and footnotes for content,
in which case I use the *†‡ series for the footnotes.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org