Help with separating group and individual information in a large document

[KrisM78]

I am creating a 100+ page (college class) document using MS Word. It
contains many references and the work of three individuals. On almost
a paragraph-by-paragraph basis, I need to note to the reader who wrote
what! I've thought of text color, Individual initials at beginning or
end of paragraph, footnotes, endnotes, and TOC (individual headers)
manipulation, but none of the aforementioned methods work efficiently
or properly. Color is hard to discern (to the professor), two
individuals have very similar initials (LPM, LFM) so that may be
confusing, and footnotes don't keep the same symbol from page to page
or section to section, also multiple paragraphs per page or section
require the same symbol/number/etc.. Footnotes also take up too much
room at the bottom of each page. I though of endnotes, but that seems
too difficult to figure out who-done-what at a glance. Endnotes also
have similar restrictions to footnotes.


Can anyone think of a better way to separate this document so it looks
professional and clean? If someone could help, I would greatly
appreciate it!!! I will also check with document formatting (such as
MLA or APA) for more/proper methods.

Kris

 

[CyberTaz]

One thought on the matter -

For the first contribution by a given individual insert a footnote or
endnote (FWIW, I prefer an endnote for this.) You can assign a custom symbol
- even use the initials if you wish.

For the remaining contributions by that same party insert a
*Cross-Reference* to the corresponding endnote rather than a separate
endnote. In the Insert> Reference> Cross-Reference dialog open the left list
& select Endnote, from right list select Endnote Number (Formatted), then
pick the appropriate endnote from the list of endnotes.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac