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| Thread ID: 112737 | 2010-09-20 13:16:00 | MS Word 2007, footnote separation long line misplaced | emmerc (12836) | Press F1 |
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| 1138541 | 2010-09-20 13:16:00 | Hello Wise Friends, I need your help! I am writing my PhD Dissertation on MS Word 2007 in a Vista environment . I have several big footnotes that go to the next page and therefore it appears the long line that goes from one border to the other marking that the footnote comes from the previous page . That's fine . Now, several of the other pages that have normal footnotes and are not affected by notes coming from the previous page are showing the long border-to-border line! How can I correct that? The editor of my university is blue about it and I'm running out of time for the edition's deadline! Help me please! :( |
emmerc (12836) | ||
| 1138542 | 2010-09-20 15:50:00 | Let me give you an update, reviewing my document (355 pages) I see that really there are a lot of notes as my paper requires a lot of documentation. Well, several of those notes are being sent to the next page and therefore the long border-to-border line appears misplaced as that page have complete notes from the previous page. I have tried setting the footnotes at the bottom of the page and below the text, I have tried MS Word 2003 and 2007 and there is no significant difference. Any suggestion? (Any aside from reducing my footnotes! :-( ) |
emmerc (12836) | ||
| 1138543 | 2010-09-20 22:30:00 | May not be acceptable ... but have you thought about adding a Footer to each page that requires a footnote ?? You should be able to change the size to suit your footnote, or alternately, put a footer on each page and only use if required. That will give an even amount of space on each page for text. |
SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1138544 | 2010-09-20 22:31:00 | If your document is going to go online - What I do for some of my sites is to link to reference documents for site visitors to download. I upload word doc/pdf's to my web space, and if the links are clicked then they download/or open. Footnotes are just for notes, rather than a massive collection (it seems) which will be a bit unwieldy to manage or some cases for readers to read. Their might be a limit to how much a foot note section can contain, although I assume you have tried different/maximum border sizes - without your notes/borders flowing to the next page. But you can separate, i.e. split out/continue long (www.recipester.org 243) footnotes, but then you might consider creating an entire word document to link to/or reference for readers. Then how are readers going to quickly find your huge list of relevant footnotes from certain pages? You could try cross referencing them by bookmarking them from within a page or between footnotes - which is another task to learn. |
kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1138545 | 2010-09-20 22:32:00 | MY BAD ... Didn't read your posts correctly. Tried altering the size of text for the footnotes ? | SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1138546 | 2010-09-21 00:14:00 | Kahawai chaser, SP8's, Friends thanks for your time and your advice. The document is a PhD dissertation that is written using Turabian style and needs to be submitted printed in hard copy. The information provided in the notes is critical and absolutely necessary. :-( |
emmerc (12836) | ||
| 1138547 | 2010-09-21 04:18:00 | I realise that the footnotes are required. I assume you are inserting a "footer" at the bottom of the page to contain your footnotes, or are you just adding them to the bottom of the page as normal text without the boarders associated with an actual "Footer" Try (& I think 2007 is the same as 2010) open a new document > Insert > Footer ... from there you can alter the margin sizes of the footer to accommodate the required footnote and/or adjust the text size. If that doesn't suit your editors requirements ... ask them for instructions on how you should it the way they require. |
SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1138548 | 2010-09-21 06:37:00 | Thanks a lot SP8's for your time and your advice, I really appreciate it. I am trying what you are suggesting and also asking my editor for ways to solve this situation. | emmerc (12836) | ||
| 1138549 | 2010-09-21 22:05:00 | Try this: 1) On the View ribbon select Draft mode. 2) Double-click the footnote mark which will open up the footnote/endnote window 3) In the footnote window, you should see a drop-down menu where you can choose 'Footnote Continuation Separator' where you can adjust the line. Note you can always copy the line from the 'Footnote Separator' if you want consistency. 4) On the View ribbon select Print Layout and you should be able to see your change. Good luck, Dave |
odyssey (4613) | ||
| 1138550 | 2010-09-23 00:59:00 | Hello odyssey, Thanks a lot my wise friend for your time and your advice. I will try your suggestion. Meanwhile I discovered that as my editor asked me to set the notes at the bottom of the text instead of setting them at the bottom of the page, this seems to be what is creating the problem. That way in 25 of the 355 pages the problem is present. When I set the notes back to the bottom of the page, the whole issue disappears from the whole paper. I am negotiating with the editor to let me use the notes set to the bottom of the page while I try your workaround. |
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