Footnotes Facing text?

[Alie]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Hello. I'm writing a paper, and I'd like help formatting my footnotes. Rather than having the annotations appear at the bottom of the page (as footnotes), I want the whole page to be in two columns, with my text on the left side of the page, and the annotations on the right side of the page. That way, instead of looking down at footnotes, a reader can look across at the annotations. Like:

Text*Text I *footnote
TextText* I *footnote
TextText I

all on one page. Is this even possible? I tried to find templates (because I think this is sort of what templates are for) but I couldn't find anything, and I've been playing around with Layout and Page Setup and all kinds of stuff. Nothing.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[John McGhie]

What you want is known in the trade as a "Callout". You will find them on
the Drawing toolbar.

But the callouts in Word are designed to be used to point things out in a
picture. They are floating graphics object, and trying to manage hundreds
of them in an academic paper would be the kind of thing you should employ a
professional graphics designer to do for you.

There is another mechanism you could look at, and that's a "Table". If you
set up a two-column table with hidden borders, you can have text in one
column and notes in the other.

To keep things lined up, make sure that you add only one paragraph to each
row of the table. And in the Table properties, DISable "Allow rows to split
across pages".

Hope this helps

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Hello. I'm writing a paper, and I'd like help formatting my footnotes. Rather
than having the annotations appear at the bottom of the page (as footnotes), I
want the whole page to be in two columns, with my text on the left side of the
page, and the annotations on the right side of the page. That way, instead of
looking down at footnotes, a reader can look across at the annotations. Like:

Text*Text I *footnote
TextText* I *footnote
TextText I

all on one page. Is this even possible? I tried to find templates (because I
think this is sort of what templates are for) but I couldn't find anything,
and I've been playing around with Layout and Page Setup and all kinds of
stuff. Nothing.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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