inserting comments on footnotes

[Guest]

Is there any way to make comments on footnotes in Word 2003? I am editing a
scholarly publication, and though I can insert comments on the text, the
comment button is unavailable when the cursor is in a footnote. If not a
comment, does anyone have a suggestion about how I can make notes for the
author on his footnotes?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

No can do, design limitation.

You could highlight the footnote number in the main text and attach the
comment to that, probably prefixing it with "re footnote:" or somesuch.

Last I tried this, I wound up just typing directly into the footnotes as
Tracked Changes, and wasn't so happy about it.

I *think* (this is an experiment for me), that if you go to this link, you
can add your vote to an existing Suggestion for MS to add this feature:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/wizard.mspx?dg=microsoft.pub
lic.word.docmanagement&tid=66fb5ee8-b552-45d2-9d40-0b4527f30202&cat=en-us-of
fice&lang=en&cr=US&sloc=en-us&m=1&query=comments%20footnotes&type=suggestion
&p=1

If that link doesn't work, start here with the Make a Suggestion Wizard,
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/contactus.aspx?Sitename=3

Search for the existing feature request for this (titled "making comments"),
and vote I Agree. You will need to sign into Passport, though...