I¹m setting up a dissertation in Word X and Endnote and need to use
Footnotes (not endnotes). Endnote 7 inserts a styled text in the footnote
according a template (mine is ³Chicago 14A²).
Now, how do I format the footnote and the superscript reference numbers at
the point of insertion and in front of the footnote itself. How can I make
this format universal so that every time I create a footnote the ntoe is
formatted as are the superscript numbers?
Okay. That's exactly what happens if you don't think about it, so either
you are misunderstanding, or something is going wrong. I can't quite tell
from your post, so I'll just explain.
Terminology issue, first off. EndNote uses "output styles" to determine the
punctuation, etc of the footnote. But it does not insert "styled text" as
Word would understand it. Word uses "style" to mean a collection of
formatting instructions--all footnotes by default are in the Footnote Text
style, and EndNote uses that text style for the formatting of it's output
style.
Did that make sense? That is, even though EndNote generates the actual text
of the footnote, it is still formatted in Footnote Text style as though you
had typed it yourself.
Note also that EndNote does *not* create the footnote for you. You have to
create the footnote in Word yourself (Insert | Footnote, hit OK, after about
three times of that you'll be dying to set up a keyboard shortcut, post back
if you don't know how). On Insert | Footnote, Word puts the number in the
text, puts the number at the bottom of the page, and leaves the cursor there
for you to type the note. Then you put the EndNote field into the
Word-created footnote.
The numbers in both places are formatted by Word in Footnote Reference
style, which is superscript by default. (if yours isn't, say so, we'll tell
you how to fix it).
So. If you want to change how the text of the footnote looks, you need to
Modify the Style in Word (Format | Style, select Footnote Text in left
column, click Modify, check "add to template" but not "automatically
update", use the Format drop down menu to format as desired).
If you want to change how the numbers look, you need to Modify the Style in
Word (same as above except it is called Footnote Reference).
Notes from my experience writing a diss with Word and EndNote, though not
those exact versions.
I do *not* use Instant Formatting, on the principle that EndNote is buggy
and unstable (it is) and I want to give it as little to deal with as
possible. I just insert the raw EndNote fields (in { } brackets, with
@pages# if necessary), and I leave them raw until I need to send the doc to
someone, at which point I format on a copy, send off the copy, and continue
to do all my editing in the version with the raw fields.
For your dissertation, I *strongly* suggest that you set up a dissertation
template. More info on templates, see here:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart1.htm
You should also learn about using styles in Word, if you are writing a
dissertation. Do you know anything about Word's styles? Are you writing
this yourself or just formatting it for someone?
