I use WordStarter 2010. I'm editing footnotes in a manuscript for a client, and have discovered to my great dismay that WordStarter 2010 doesn't have footnotes enabled — I can change the wording in existing notes, or delete them, but not add new ones or renumber existing ones. Does anyone have any suggestions for a work around that won't involve my having to buy Microsoft Office?
posted by orange swan
on Dec 11, 2012 -
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Need help updating MS Word (2010) cross-references to reflect the order in which they appear.
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posted by KogeLiz
on Oct 12, 2012 -
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I want a version of Joyce's
Ulysses with footnotes at the bottom of the page. Paper or e-book.
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posted by zardoz
on Sep 13, 2012 -
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When I am working with notes (footnotes and endnotes) in Word for Mac 2011, there is some glitch that sometimes causes all the notes to disappear, or for my cursor to jump pages (up or down).
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posted by bwonder2
on Jan 25, 2012 -
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I have a health condition that may end my life prematurely. I am an "older" parent of an only child who is currently 8 years old. It's important to me that I leave a record of who I was. Can you help me with strategies to help me "index and annotate" myself for her, so that when she is older she could have an idea of her father as an adult beyond just the Daddy that I am to her now?
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posted by nickjadlowe
on Dec 13, 2011 -
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I am using Mac OS 10.6.8 and Microsoft Word for Mac 2008 version 12.3.1. For some reason, when I am copying and pasting a section of text even within the same document, the footnotes are dropped, both the superscript number and the actual footnote. How can I get Word to copy and paste sections of text and leave my footnotes intact?
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posted by Original 1928 Flavor
on Nov 17, 2011 -
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How can I export just my footnotes/endnotes in MS Word? Without any numbers next to them, just the text?
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posted by jak68
on Apr 28, 2010 -
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Footnote filter: I am writing a non-fiction, non-academic book and need help determining what to include in my citations.
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posted by quidividi
on Dec 5, 2009 -
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I'm writing in Word for Mac and all of my footnotes have suddenly turned into little boxes. What's going on?
posted by anonymous78
on Aug 13, 2009 -
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Help needed with footnotes in Word. (I know Word is terrible with footnotes and gives everyone grief, but these are straightforward things I'm wanting.)
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posted by cincinnatus c
on May 6, 2009 -
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MLA citation filter: How would I go about citing a footnote in a text that is not written by the author of the text? For example, I am writing about a poem in an anthology, and I will be making use of some of the information provided in the footnotes. How would I cite those parenthetically? Google has just turned up instructions on how to do citations, and I can't seem to find anything on this in my MLA handbook.
posted by you zombitch
on Feb 1, 2009 -
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Footnote experts/writers: Please help me decide the best way to use footnotes in my document.
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posted by Badmichelle
on Sep 17, 2008 -
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MetaStyle: When using a superscripted dagger (cross) to indicate a footnote, should the footnote at the bottom of the page be preceded by a superscripted dagger or a regular-sized dagger? Should there be a space between the dagger and the footnote?
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posted by Shepherd
on Jul 14, 2008 -
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[Attention-Citation-Officers-Filter]: I am clueless as to the proper way of citing financial documents in the course of my writing. The Chicago Manual of Style has left me high and dry. Hope me!
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posted by numinous
on Mar 13, 2008 -
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I am writing a book - a non-academic, non-fiction book. I am using lots of academic materials as sources, and generally I simply mention the source in the text when I am quoting directly - or summarizing an original idea contained in the source (I use footnotes when the attribution requires more info and interrupts the flow of the story I am telling.)
I am, of course, especially concerned with the issue of plagiarism - I am keeping my notes tidy, attributing as above, and otherwise following the various rules I've read in the different handbooks for academic writing I've studied.
But here are two questions....
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posted by soulbarn
on Aug 25, 2006 -
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My dissertation consists of about 320 pages, split up over seven chapters; each chapter is a separate document. I'd like to combine the seven chapters into one single megadocument, which is easy enough. But I'm having some trouble getting the numbering of the footnotes the way I want ...
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posted by Dr. Wu
on May 24, 2005 -
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When reading David Foster Wallace, do you stop for every footnote, or read the piece all the way through and go back and read the footnotes later? Or are you too anti-hip cool to read David Foster Wallace
1?
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posted by alan
on Aug 6, 2004 -
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Ack! Why does Microsoft Word move a footnote to the page following the page where the footnote is inserted (e.g. footnote reference in text is on p.14, footnote itself appears on p. 15)? Or spread the footnote across the bottom of two successive pages? It's nothing to do with (a) inserting the footnote ref near the bottom of the page, or (b) having large amounts of existing footnote text on that page. There's plenty of room for the footnote, it just goes on the next page. Thanks!
posted by carter
on Jul 22, 2004 -
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