Unless there's something going on here that I don't understand, what you've
said sounds like nonsense to me. The standard way to accomplish this is
exactly as grammatim stated it: you enter all the footnote/endnote
references in a sequence (you don't need the commas), then type an en dash
after the first or before the last and format the middle ones as Hidden.
This does not affect the display of the footnotes/endnotes themselves.
OTOH, instead of having four separate notes, you could equally well cite all
four sources in a single note, separated by semicolons.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
How do I group together a bunch of citations? What i mean how can I
convert
citations from [1,2,3,4] to [1-4]?
I am using IEEE style with square brackets.
Unfortunately, inter in-textcitationdoes not allow for such
formatting rules.
One solution is to, once you finished your document, move your mouse
over the in-textcitation, click on the arrow to the right and select
'Convertcitationto static text'. Then you can update the formatting
any way you want.
Alternatively, you could hide part of the in-textcitationby setting
the font of the selected part to 'Hidden'. Be aware though that
grouped in-text citations all belong to one field and that a field
update will therefore make the hidden parts reappear. So just like the
previous solution, you should do this only after you finished your
document.
Yves