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Mac Forum / Applications / Word / February 2007Ridiculous Endnote Number Format Troubles
Word Perfect has long allowed you to format the in-text and in-note endnote numbers separately. I just shelled out major bucks thinking Word 2007 would finally have this elementary capacity. It does not, so far as I can tell, after 3 hours of tweaking. I saw the topic about snagging the macro to kill the default superscripting of the in-note numbers, but that macro provides no control of the font and font size. The truth of the matter is that no publisher or reader wants the in-note endnote numbers superscripted, and the conventional format is full-sized font, followed by a "." and a space preceding the note text. I feel ripped off that Microsoft has not solved this problem, which it must surely have known about for years. Is there any easy way to fix it, or do I go back to WP, once and for all? Dear Spike, You have landed in a Mac Word newsgroup; we don't have Word 2007 here. Although someone who uses it may respond here, you'll get more responses if you post on a PC newsgroup. Caveat emptor, eh? ;-) Clive Huggan ============ On 27/2/07 1:19 PM, in article DB61D46C-5C5F-49F1-AF55-06FCCE86873E@microsoft.com, "Spike in PDX" <Spike in PDX@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > Word Perfect has long allowed you to format the in-text and in-note endnote > numbers separately. I just shelled out major bucks thinking Word 2007 would [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > surely have known about for years. Is there any easy way to fix it, or do I > go back to WP, once and for all? Hhi Spike: Well, if you go back to WordPerfect, nobody will notice. Last time I tried WordPerfect, it choked up on the size of documents I use Word for. If you post questions about PC Word 2007 in the Mac Word 2004 newsgroup, you'll be struggling for an answer. Most of us have never seen the product. I do have Word 2007 here. You can make a macro to insert the endnotes, and if you do, you can format either of them any way you like. It's a bit of a fiddle: you may want to use EndNote (the product) instead. Chances are that Microsoft never will solve this problem because EndNote already does, and cutting across someone else's marketing opportunity may be subject to commercial agreements. Check the EndNote website for more: http://www.endnote.com/enhome.asp Cheers On 27/2/07 1:19 PM, in article DB61D46C-5C5F-49F1-AF55-06FCCE86873E@microsoft.com, "Spike in PDX" <Spike in PDX@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > Word Perfect has long allowed you to format the in-text and in-note endnote > numbers separately. I just shelled out major bucks thinking Word 2007 would [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > surely have known about for years. Is there any easy way to fix it, or do I > go back to WP, once and for all?  SignaturePlease reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie <john@mcghie.name> Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant Technical Writer. Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 Side note: the product EndNote does *not* address this problem in any way whatsoever. EndNote leans on the footnotes/endnotes created by Word. Also, John, MS just cut into the bibliography manager space with Word 2007. :) Though the newsgroups are full of complaints from people who want it to be more powerful and customizable, so it isn't really competition for EndNote. But, as John says, Spike, you *can* tweak the macro here to change the font size and formatting. http://word.mvps.org/faqs/macrosvba/unsuperscptfnotes.htm Post in a Word Programming group for help to edit the macro. Start here: http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/FlyoutOverview.mspx#13 You'll need to provide the original code or the link to the site, and you'll need to tell them what you do want the font and size to be, for someone to edit the macro for you. Daiya > Hhi Spike: > [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] >> go back to WP, once and for all? >> |
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