Footnotes with different numbering

[Guest]

Law Professors want to create articles with footnotes that are numbered
randomley depending on what section of a case they are quoting. So the
numbering could be 1, 2, 9, 11, 4, 5, 6, 22, 24, etc. How can I accomplish
this? I have tried section breaks, and custom marks and nothing seems to
work. HELP!!!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Are there actual footnotes associated with these reference numbers? If not,
just add the reference numbers as plain text. Or, if they refer to a
reference list at the end, use a cross-reference to the paragraph number of
the numbered item.

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

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[Guest]

Yes, these are actual footnotes with a footnote number in the text of the
article and a footnote number in the footnote section at the bottom of the
page so plain text would not work since they need to refer to the footnote.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I have never heard of using footnotes that don't have consecutive numbering;
I don't believe this is realistically possible in Word.

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Well, you know lawyers, they think outside the box. I did find a way to do
this. You have to do it while you are creating the document. When you need
an odd numbered footnote, Use the Custom option in footnote numbering, leave
it set to continuous and whole document and you can number them any old way
you want or even use symbols. thanks for your reply to my initial request
and your followup, this is the first time I have posted something and
actually gotten a reply.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Thanks for the feedback. I'm amazed that this works, though; I'll have to
experiment with it.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
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Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Daiya Mitchell]

We've met this trick before, for a different purpose--Word allows you to
have two separate series of notes, *if* one is autonumbered and the other is
custom. It can be quite handy.

(Also, it sounds like the lawyers just need to duplicate a note that exists
within a quotation--that's why the numbering is weird, for accurate
reproduction of the quotation)

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

In instances such as you cite, I always do the quotation footnotes manually,
inserting the footnote immediately beneath the quotation rather than mixed
in with the other footnotes in the document.

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

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