How to change footnote format to appear as in books?

[Frank Williams]

I am used to WordPerfect. I want my footnotes to appear in my legal briefs
and memoranda the way they appear in books. A 10 point number on the left
margin, followed by a period. A paragraph with a hanging indent with the
margin of the left side of the second and subsequent lines aligned 1/4" from
the left margin, the right margin justified, and one line space between
footnotes. I want this to be the default setting upon all my document
templates, particularly the Normal template.

I would appreciate any help you can give me. Right now, I have to format
each footnote pane individually and I have the same Microsoft superscript
number for the next footnote with no space between the footnotes. That is
screwed up. As Microsoft has been copying Mac for Vista, they should have
long ago copied WordPerfect for many of its better features, including
keystrokes for functions without having to use the mouse for everything.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/UnSuperscptFnotes.htm

 

[Frank Williams]

I have not tried it yet, but it appears that it will. It is exactly on
point. Now I have another question. I also like to embolden the footnote in
the text. Do you have any ideas how to do that.

Thanks for the first heads-up.

Frank Williams
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Graham Mayor]

Select the footnote, Format > style > footnote reference. Change the style
text to whatever you want. Check the add to template check box.

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[Frank Williams]

That worked to make the footnote in the text bold, but it added a
supernumerary superscript bold footnote number in the footnote at the tab
site of the hanging indent for the Footnote Text. If I tried to back up and
erase it, I lost the normal footnote number at the left margin and the
superscript bold footnote number went to the left margin. I discovered I
could select just the superscript footnote number and delete it. That would
return me to the tab insert for my hanging indent, ready to type my footnote.

Microsoft should have spent more time on the footnotes. Years ago, when
Radio Shack had a program called Scripsit, that program had no provision for
footnoting. Of course, you cannot sell many programs to law firms if the
word processor will not footnote. I worked out a way to footnote in that
program (although the footnotes would not move to another page or renumber
themselves automatically because I was using a mere text-insertion technique)
and spent hours on the telephone with people from Fort Worth telling them how
to do it. The first time I asked for help from Radio Shack, they wanted to
charge me. Bad move. After three Radio Shack computers, I never have bought
another Radio Shack product -- not even a flashlight bulb. At least
Microsoft's Community Discussion Group site lets you get help from people who
know -- not usually Microsoft employees.

Thanks for your help. If you figure a work-around that will keep the
Footnote Reference from inserting an extra footnote number in my footnote, I
would appreciate receiving that information.

Frank E. Williams, Jr.
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Graham Mayor]

Word uses the same paragraph style for the footnote reference wherever it
appears, hence if you change it in the text it will change in the footnote
area also. You could manually format the number in the footnote area
differently if you wanted. I don't see how you could have two numbers in the
footnote area unless you have applied a numbering attribute style to the
Footnote Text style?

The correspondents in these forums are not Microsoft employees. This is a
peer group forum.
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[Daiya Mitchell]

Side note: via Tools | Customize, you can assign a keystroke to any
feature that is predefined in Word. You can also assign a keystroke to
features you create--macros to do a set of actions, AutoText, etc.