Using The Footnote Feature Without The Number

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Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:29:44 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

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Solutions: Customers may have the need to insert footnotes without inserting a number/character in the text or at the bottom of the page (no numbers/characters). This can be done several ways: 1. Use a period (.) as the footnote number instead of a space. This way the user could insert the footnote code at the closet position in which they need a period, without having to advance or eliminate an extra space. The user could then manually remove the period in the actual note by deleting the note number code ([Note Num]) while typing the footnote text. With the exception of step seven, this can be done by following the above steps and placing a period for the footnote numbering method. 2. Set the footnote character to a graphically-created character. Note: This method only works if there are no graphics, line draw, tables, or other graphically-created characters in the document. 1. Position the cursor at the top of the document (Home, Home, Home, Up Arrow). 2. Enter the Footnote Options menu (Ctrl-F7, F, O). 3. Change the Footnote Numbering Method to Characters (M, C). 4. Find five characters that do not print on your printer. WordPerfect 5.1 prints characters graphically if they are not found in the current font so users should choose characters from Character Set 12, which is user-defined. This works as long you have not previously defined characters for set 12. 5. Compose the five non-printable characters: (Ctrl-2, 12,1, Enter), (Ctrl-2, 12,2, Enter), (Ctrl-2, 12,3, Enter), (Ctrl-2, 12,4, Enter), (Ctrl-2, 12,5, Enter, F7). After each entry, a small box will appear on the menu line. (Please be aware that the comma between the two numbers should be typed because it is necessary for the Compose command to work.) 6. Set the Start Footnote Numbers on Each Page option to Yes (6, Y). If users have more than five footnotes on a page, the characters will be printed twice for the sixth through tenth footnotes, and then three times, and so forth. By setting the footnotes to restart the numbering on each page, users will keep using the same five "blank" characters. 7. Set Graphics Quality to Do Not Print 3. Using the white font color before and black font color after the note num in the footnote and also the same colors before and after the footnote code in the text. 4. Change the footnote character to a hard space (Home-Space). This option does, however, insert sequential spaces, e.g., one space for the first footnote, two for the second, three for the third, etc. Users can keep the number of spaces to one by specifying a New Number with each footnote. Just one space is inserted at this point. If having an extra space is a problem, the user can include an Advance Left code to eliminate the extra space caused by the footnote. The advance number will vary with the font and driver used. A common position is .06". When using the Standard Printer definition, .09" is a good setting. The following shows the steps required in making the above changes: 1. Press Ctrl-F7, 1-Footnote, 4-Options 2. Select option 5-Footnote Numbering Method, and select 3-Characters 3. Press Home-Space to insert a hard space 4. Exit to the document screen. You may see an a on the screen. 5. Press Ctrl-F7, 1-Footnote, 3-New Number 6. Enter 1 for the new number 7. Press Shift-F8, 4-Other, 1-Advance, 4-Left and enter the desired advance setting (.06") 8. Exit to the document screen, and create the footnote The user may want to insert steps 5-8 in a macro. These steps can also be used with endnotes. This method will also put an "a" with an accent in the text and footnote but it will view and print correctly. Answer: Status: Sent to Development *\/|sent to dev|\/* Press Enter on link token.

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