At 11:36 11/01/2008 -0700, Maury Noname wrote:
I am putting together a large document and with great frustration trying to use foot notes.
I don't think you are using footnotes, in fact: you seem to have (separately) tried footers and notes.
_Concept:_ I have 2 columns on a 8.5 x 11" paper. Each column represents a new page.
If you want each column to have a separate page number, I think you have a problem, since footers don't seem to be able to be split into columns. You probably need to set up your page size genuinely as what it will be - half the actual paper size - and then arrange to print two pages per sheet.
On the bottom I want to have a footer for some of the pages with page numbering and be able to place notes to myself in there which will be removed before final printing. (artwork, layout, notes etc)
Oh, no, you don't! The whole purpose of a footer (or a header) is to reproduce the same or related information on successive pages. The only circumstance in which you would enter text into a footer is if you really did want that text on every page with that page style. Since that is not what you want, don't put your text in the footer!
It will only give me all the same page style with or with out same footer
You can change page styles only between actual pages - not, for example, between your columns representing pages. And since text can move around between pages as you modify it, it can make sense to change page styles only where there is an explicit page break. The easiest way to change page styles is to use Insert | Manual Break..., select "Page break", and then set the page style for following pages from the drop-down list below.
I can insert a page number on one page but not get it to auto adjust on every page there after.
This sounds as if you are entering the first page number by typing "1". If you do that, it is treated as text that you want repeated on every page, so yes: you will see the same page number throughout. Instead, to get the effect you want, put the cursor in the footer and go to Insert | Fields > | Page Number. Adjust the format of the inserted field as you need.
Is there a better way to do the notes so that I do not have to delete them before final printing.
There are various things you can do, but nothing except notes works quite as you probably need.
o You could insert a frame at a suitable position and put your text in there. You can easily set the frame not to print. But then the problem is what wrap setting to choose. If you select Wrap Through, the document will print as you need but you will not be able, as you work, to read the text obscured by the frame. If you select anything else, you will be able to read all your text, but the document will print with a blank area where the frame is.
o You could use footnotes. But there is no obvious way to suppress the printing of footnotes, and you would have to delete them before printing.
o You could enter your text in some way that would identify it as such [[perhaps like this?]] and then delete it before printing. In this example, you could search for \[\[[^\]]*]] and replace with nothing, with regular expressions turned on. But you are still going to have to check the formatting of your work after you have deleted the additional text.
o You could use notes. Yes, really!
I tried "notes" but i want a note that stays open as I work on it and prints on the same page when I print it.
I don't understand this bit, I'm afraid: I understood you to say that you *didn't* want the note printed at all. Isn't that the point of your problem?
I trust this helps. Brian Barker --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
