Hi: Thanks for the info on the footnotes. Actually I do have Firefox not Foxfire. I don't even know what Foxfire is. Sorry about that. I will try out what you told me to do. And I will update Open Office. Thanks again, Annie
-----Original Message----- From: Brian Barker <[email protected]> To: users <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, Feb 13, 2011 11:27 am Subject: Re: [users] footnotes At 19:56 09/02/2011 -0500, Annie Lloyd wrote: >I have Open Office 2, Windows XP, and Foxfire. I recommend that you discard Foxfire and install the more popular Firefox. Oh, and I have OpenOffice 3.1; I trust what I am about to suggest will be relevant. If not, you might want to update your installation. >I'm doing a journal which is a large file consisting of articles >within it. Two of the articles have footnotes. The first article >had four footnotes and each one was numbered 1, 2, 3, 4. Now to the >second article. It had seven footnotes. I wanted the footnotes to >start as 1 thru 7 but it started as footnote 5 thru 12. How do you >change the numbering so that the footnotes start with #1 on each >article? Please let me know in layman's English. This is fairly easy if you make each of your articles separate sections. o Select each of your second and subsequent articles separately in turn. (It doesn't matter whether you do this for your first article.) o Go to Insert | Section... | Footnotes/Endnotes | Footnotes. o Tick "Collect at end of text". o Tick "Restart numbering". o Leave "Start at" set to 1. o Click Insert. You may think that "Collect at end of text" will move all the footnotes to the end of the section - in your case, of the article. But this is not so: instead, this setting merely allows you to have any remaining footnotes immediately after a section if it ends in the middle of a page. I trust this helps. Brian Barker --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
