How to change footnote format?

[LAS]

Somehow my footnotes all got changed from Arabic numerals to lower case
Roman numerals. I can't figure out how to change them back. I thought I
had found the method. On the references tab, click the little arrow in the
bottom right of the Footnotes icon. There it looks like you can re-apply
the numbering in any format. I set it up to use Arabic numerals (which
shows as the default) for the whole document. I click Apply, but the
footnote numbering format doesn't change. (I've tried this with bot .doc
and .rtf formats.)

Suggestions?

TIA
LAS

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Are you sure you're using footnotes and not endnotes? Those lowercase roman
numerals are (and have been for many versions) the default number format for
endnotes (no one seems to know why). The way you're going about it is
correct, clicking the dialog launcher (which is what the little arrow is
called) to open the Footnote and Endnote dialog, making sure the Footnotes
radio button is selected, then selecting 1, 2, 3... as the number format and
making sure that "Whole document" is selected for "Apply changes to." So I
can't see why it would not be working.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[LAS]

I'm using endnotes. "Footnotees" was just ordinary language shorthand. And
I click that as well. It defaults to footnotes in the dialog box. Is it
supposed to default to what's currently being used... might that be a
symptom of corruption?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Ah, well, if you have "Footnotes" selected when you make the changes, then
that wouldn't help. If you've explicitly selected "Endnotes" (not really
necessary, as you are correct that it defaults to the type in use) and made
the changes and they haven't taken effect, then I don't have an explanation;
here it works as expected.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[LAS]

Well, it's not defaulting to the type in use, so maybe there's something
fundamentally corrupt in my document? When I enter the dialog box, it's
defaulting to footnotes and arabic numbers, when what's in use is end notes
and roman numerals.

Thanks, though, for telling me what's expected. That helps.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, if it doesn't default to endnotes, then you should manually choose
endnotes before changing the number format. If you then proceed as before,
you should see the difference in your endnote numbering.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[soaring.sentences]

I had this problem. I found that the solution was to click in one of the footnotes before changing the settings. For some reason, although the whole document setting was for Arabic numerals, when I was in the footnote, it showed current format as Roman numerals. My theory is that the document, sent to me by someone else, originally had endnotes which were converted to footnotes.