Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated April 11, 2022)
This tip applies to Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Word in Microsoft 365
John has written a book with many chapters. Each chapter is a section within the document. There are a lot of footnotes, numbered from 1 in each section. There are some landscape-oriented illustrations in some chapters, and so each of these is its own one-page section. The problem is that footnotes start at 1 again after each landscape page, even though that page is in the middle of a chapter. John would like the numbering before and after the landscape illustration to be continuous for the whole chapter but, so far, he can't find a way of doing it.
Word allows you to modify how your footnotes are numbered, and this modification can be made for each section within your document. It sounds like, in John's case, the footnotes have been modified so that they begin with 1 every time there is a section break, so the problem occurs only with those chapters that contain multiple sections (such as for the chapters containing sections for landscape-oriented pictures).
To get around this problem, follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Footnote and Endnote dialog box.
The idea is to change the way footnotes are numbered, to Continuous, for every section in the document except for those sections that actually start chapters. Those sections (and only those sections) should have their numbering (step 5) set to Restart Each Section.
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2021-05-28 05:08:23
Dorathea Du Plessis
Brilliant! Thank you.
2021-05-27 13:59:36
Dorathea Du Plessis
I'm working on a document of almost 600 pages and lots of footnotes. In some chapters there are section breaks for landscape tables.
Now, I have a problem with setting footnotes for each Chapter to start from 1, thus Restart each Section.
But now you have a section break within the chapter and wants to continue with the footnote numbers. For example: the last footnote was 8 before the landscape table. The next page after the table should be footnote 9, but it starts again at 1. It i s not possible to change the "start at" number to 9.
I've been struggling with this for a long time and this doctoral student wants it done the right way, thus continuing with his footnote numbers.
Please help!
2019-01-23 06:08:59
Sayed
I have a document that has separate chapters and I want to restart the footnotes for each chapter. However, sometimes I also need to include section breaks within chapters and I don't want to restart footnotes after these section breaks.
For example, I might have 2 chapters:
In chapter 1 I have 59 footnotes. Then I have a section break. Then I start chapter 2 which has a section break in the middle. There is 10 footnotes before the section break in chapter 2 and 10 footnotes after.
If I restart the footnotes after the first section break and then continue the footnotes after the second section break my footnotes are numbered like so: 1-59, 1-10, 71.
What I want is my footnotes to be numbered: 1-59, 1-10, 11 etc.
In other words, when I continue the footnotes, I want them to continue from the previous section but not from the start of the whole document.
Is there any way to do this? I am open to using VBA.
Thanks
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