Footnotes and styles

[Guest]

In the formats and styling dialog box it lists the styles and when you right
click it lets you select the text that is marked as that style. However, the
styles in footnotes it always says style not in use even when it's clearly
being used. It doesn't make a difference if I am in Normal or Print view.
Does anybody know why and how to select by style in footnotes? Thanks!

 

[Joseph McGuire]

I seem to be unable to reproduce this problem. In Word 2000 I can select
the text in a footnote and apply styles other than footnote text. Same with
Word 2003.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I don't believe that's the problem Fred is complaining about. The problem is
rather that some styles in Word (including Footnote Text) are never
displayed in the Styles and Formatting task bar (even if you select All
Styles rather than Styles in Use or Available Styles) unless you have used
Custom to check them off to be displayed. You can, however, force the Styles
dropdown (on the Formatting toolbar) to display all styles (*all* styles) by
pressing Shift while clicking the down arrow.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Joseph McGuire]

Hmm. Sorry, I must have misunderstood. (In any event, when I create a
footnote in W2000 or 2003, I can see Footnote Text in the task bar even when
I switch it to Styles in Use)

 

[Guest]

Hi,
Thanks for replying! I'm sorry I didn't get back sooner I wasn't notified by
e-mail of the response.
Suzanne hit it right on the ball. I don't see Footnote Text in the Styles
and Formatting box. But it's even more than that. Even when I apply my own
style (let's call it style1) it will show up in the Styles and Formatting
box, however when I click to select all text using style1 it says "Select
all: not currently being used" when it is in fact clearly being used. I would
greatly appreciate any help.