WORD: Incompatibility between columns and footnotes

[Guest]

I tend to write Prefaces to my editions in two columns, English and German.
If my text includes footnotes, the command 'next section (continuous)' forces
a page break which is often undesirable. Any ideas?

 

[Opinicus]

"Michael Procter, musician in Germany"

I tend to write Prefaces to my editions in two columns, English and German.
If my text includes footnotes, the command 'next section (continuous)'
forces
a page break which is often undesirable. Any ideas?

No ideas but some commiseration. I use a similar two-column method when
translating (source text in left column, target text in right column) and
for the life of me I can't get footnotes to appear on the right page most of
the time.

I'm using Office XP Professional and Word 2002 by the way.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

It's a known issue--a workaround here:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/FtnoteSpanColumns.htm

Simultaneous translation is often done by using a two-column table
instead of the Columns feature, and that might be an alternative also.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your comment. The other posting had some help to offer, but it
does seem to be a problem! Michael