Footnotes not on same page as footnote markers in a multi-page tab

[djb]

The whole document is a table, and several of the rows are more than one page
long. The footnotes (automatically generated, at bottom of page) sometimes
print on the page before the page that has the footnote marker. When I've
come across this problem before, I broke the long table rows into several
rows, but this doc is still being edited, inserts made, etc., and the divided
rows could make editing tricky. Is there some other way to fix this?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

There are two factors here:

1. Ordinary footnotes in a table appear at the foot of the page on which the
row in which they are contained *ends.* This can be a problem with rows that
break over pages. I have seen documents with rows that go on for several
pages and accumulate so many footnotes that they cannot be accommodated on
the last page, and so they just disappear entirely.

2. Table footnotes are supposed to be at the end of the table, not at the
foot of the page. Consequently, you should not use ordinary (automatic)
footnotes but instead manually insert footnote reference markers (usually
superscript letters in tables consisting primarily of numbers, and the *, ?,
? series for text tables) in the table and then manually insert the notes at
the end of the table. Many users choose to add a (merged, borderless) row at
the end of the table to hold the notes.

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