 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
Mac Forum / Applications / Word / May 2008How to edit footnotes style?
Hi all, I'm writing a paper for school and for the first time I have so many footnotes that I'm trying to use Word's built in footnotes function. I can succesfully insert a footnote reference and text, however I would like to edit the way the footnotes are displayed on the page. When the page is printed, there is a short line to separate the text body from the footnotes, which I would like to keep, howewer there is about one line of space between the line and the first footnote, but no space between the text body and the line. I would like to switch those spacings. For example, this is what the page looks like now: text text text text --------------------- footnote 1 footnote 2 I would prefer: text text text text ________________ footnote 1 footnote 2 Any ideas? Thanks, Jeroen P.S. I'm using 2008 Hi Jeroen, First of all, realize that the space between text and notes will vary. As Word juggles fitting the note on the same page as the footnote number, keeping paragraphs from having a single line on a different page, etc, it will change how many lines fit on a page. But this is how you would control what you ask for: For 2008, switch to Draft View. View Footnotes to open the footnote pane. Change the drop-down menu at the top of the footnote pane to show Footnote Separator. Select the Footnote Separator line, go to Format | Paragraph, and add a number in the Spacing Before field--probably something between 12 and 24. You might also need to set the Spacing After setting there to zero (though personally I think a little space there will look nicer). Experiment with the numbers a bit. Note that this is only going to change for the document you do it in, though I can tell you how to change it for all documents (I think). > Hi all, > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > Thanks, > Jeroen Ah, the inscrutable joys of Word. Word gives very little control over footnotes, and furthers the problem by burying those controls. To achieve what you want, switch to the draft view (View/Draft), then reveal footnotes (View/Footnotes, near the bottom of the menu). In the drop-down menu, choose the Footnote Separator. Try the reset button, it may convert the dashes to a solid line. If not, delete the dashed line and create a solid one. Finally, clicking the reset button should remove the annoying space between the line and your footnotes. Good luck kt In article <a8d1ccb6-0be3-491d-849a-a6d433ee1b62@w34g2000prm.googlegroups.com>, > Hi all, > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > Thanks, > Jeroen heh you really do need to pull off all these tricks to get something done in word, such has been my experience. thanks, these solutions worked very well. btw, the separator was still standard and nothing happened when i reset it (the dashes in my example were just me trying to make the line as close to the text as possible in my example using just text), but with the paragraph formatting i made it do what I wanted. :) Hello Ge64 - Just a short comment from a different perspective:-) On 5/29/08 3:27 AM, in article 84043cc9-4d29-4ec7-8c6d-53333b2d961c@s33g2000pri.googlegroups.com, "Ge64" <jeroenvandeven@gmail.com> wrote: > heh you really do need to pull off all these tricks to get something > done in word, such has been my experience. I don't see that as a basis for criticism. I don't think any piece of software can, by it's default settings, precisely accommodate the exact requirements of each & every potential user. IOW, Needing to "pull off all these tricks" isn't a weakness or a flaw - the fact that you *can* is, IMHO, one of its major *strengths*. It only stands to reason that not every possible change can be blatantly displayed on a handy toolbar, and that the more out of the mainstream one's preference the deeper he must dig, but the tools are there to enable getting [almost] any "something done"... It always amuses me to see postings - not necessarily yours - where someone complains about what they have to go through to make adjustments to accommodate their often unorthodox preference to features that most other similar programs don't even have - let alone provide the facility to alter. As I say, just a thought:-) Regards |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 29/5/08 8:23 PM, in article C463FC75.3BFFD%onlygeneraltaz1@com.cast.net, > Hello Ge64 - > [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > [MVP] Office:Mac > A thought shared by many, Bob. "Hello, Lamborghini Service Department? My dad just gave me his last year's model. "How do you change the colour of the GPS display? "Uh, thanks for telling me. "Heh, you really do need to pull off all these tricks to get something done. Didn't have 'em in my Ho-dai Dingbat ..." Cheers, Clive (saving up for my first Lamborghini) =================================== |
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2008 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.