Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016. If you are using an earlier version (Word 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Word, click here: Changing the Footnote Continuation Notice.
Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated December 28, 2022)
This tip applies to Word 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016
Word allows you to locate your footnotes in a couple different places in your document. Regardless of where you place footnotes, it is possible that a long footnote could overrun the space allocated for footnotes. In such an instance, Word automatically continues the footnote on the following page.
In these cases, you can specify that Word use special wording at the bottom of the footnote area to indicate that they are continued on the next page. For instance, you might want Word to print Continued on next page... at the bottom of any footnotes that will be split. To change the continuation notice, follow these steps:
Figure 1. The View Footnotes dialog box.
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2024-02-24 14:38:27
Tomek
Correction:
rather than deleting the line
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
you should change it to
.Wrap = wdFindStop
The reason is that this setting is remembered by Word, hence deleting the line may give unexpected results.
2024-02-24 14:24:08
Just a caveat:
You have to make sure that when you start the Search-Replace, the cursor is at the very beginning of the document, or at least not between the two double stars marking the text to be bold. Otherwise the process may convert the text that was not to be bold into bold - opposite to what you want.
The same applies when you run the macro, but you can add the following line of code at the beginning of the macro to start at the beginning of the document:
Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory
The macro as written in the tip will convert the text between double-asterisk marks into bold in the whole document, even if you start with just a selection of text. This is controlled by the line:
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
You can delete this line if you want the conversion only to apply to the selected text. The caveat still applies.
I propose a slightly modified macro, which will process the whole document starting at the beginning, if the selection is just the insertion point, otherwise it will only process the selected text. This macro can also be run on a header or footer.
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Sub BoldDoubleAsterisksinSelection()
If Selection.Type = wdSelectionIP Then Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
Selection.Find.Replacement.Font.Bold = True
With Selection.Find
.Text = "\*\*(*)\*\*"
.Replacement.Text = "\1"
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindStop
.Format = True
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchWildcards = True
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End Sub
2024-02-24 04:47:59
Leanne Bentley
I’d love more wild card tips. I use this one a lot.
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