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Michael Martin
Failed "This Section" continuous Foot/Endnote Numbering
Word has a new feature: one can select, whether the
numbering feature of endnotes and footnotes is to be
applied to the "Whole document" or to "This Section" only.
The problem is: it doesn't seem to work.
Situation:
a) I have a document with 5 sections, each of them has
endnotes (or alternatively footnotes, which doesn't make a
difference)
b) Section 2, 3, and 4 belong to one article. It was split
into three sections, because section number 3, in the
middle of this article, needed a different rendering
(e.g., landscape instead of portrait, or single column in
stead of double column, and similar cases). But because
all three sections belong to one article, I need the
endnotes to be numbered continuously starting with 1 in
section 2 and counted up through and including section 4.
Section 5, however, should again start with 1, as it is a
different article, so is section 1. So I start up with
having all sections restart their endnote numbering with 1
(Restart each section. whole document).
c) If I place the cursor into section 3 and choose
Insert/Footnote/, then select "Endnotes", "Numbering:
Continuous", "Apply changes to: This section", then one
would expect the endnote numbering to continue where the
endnotes had left off in the previous section, section 2.
However, this is not what happens. Word actually pretends
that all endnotes so far, which occurred in the "Whole
document," have been numbered continuously and continuous
from there. For example:
If section 1 has ten endnotes and section 2 has nine, then
the first endnote of section 3 will NOT be 10 (9+1), but
20 (10+9+1).
d) I tried to have section three "restart" with "Start at:
20", but it ignores any start number higher than one. If
entering a start number higher than one with "Continuous"
numbering, it will add this number on top of all endnotes
(here: 20+10+9+1).
That doesn't seem to make any sense. I would greatly
appreciate if it worked, as I frequently have to manually
set pseudo-foot/endnotes to circumvent this, but either I
haven't understood how it works or it doesn't work at all.
Word has a new feature: one can select, whether the
numbering feature of endnotes and footnotes is to be
applied to the "Whole document" or to "This Section" only.
The problem is: it doesn't seem to work.
Situation:
a) I have a document with 5 sections, each of them has
endnotes (or alternatively footnotes, which doesn't make a
difference)
b) Section 2, 3, and 4 belong to one article. It was split
into three sections, because section number 3, in the
middle of this article, needed a different rendering
(e.g., landscape instead of portrait, or single column in
stead of double column, and similar cases). But because
all three sections belong to one article, I need the
endnotes to be numbered continuously starting with 1 in
section 2 and counted up through and including section 4.
Section 5, however, should again start with 1, as it is a
different article, so is section 1. So I start up with
having all sections restart their endnote numbering with 1
(Restart each section. whole document).
c) If I place the cursor into section 3 and choose
Insert/Footnote/, then select "Endnotes", "Numbering:
Continuous", "Apply changes to: This section", then one
would expect the endnote numbering to continue where the
endnotes had left off in the previous section, section 2.
However, this is not what happens. Word actually pretends
that all endnotes so far, which occurred in the "Whole
document," have been numbered continuously and continuous
from there. For example:
If section 1 has ten endnotes and section 2 has nine, then
the first endnote of section 3 will NOT be 10 (9+1), but
20 (10+9+1).
d) I tried to have section three "restart" with "Start at:
20", but it ignores any start number higher than one. If
entering a start number higher than one with "Continuous"
numbering, it will add this number on top of all endnotes
(here: 20+10+9+1).
That doesn't seem to make any sense. I would greatly
appreciate if it worked, as I frequently have to manually
set pseudo-foot/endnotes to circumvent this, but either I
haven't understood how it works or it doesn't work at all.