Enter a footnote

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Marc

How can I enter a footnote?

I've been reading the help files for half an hour and looking in the menu
items of word 2003 and I cannot find it.

I did find irritating explination on what a footnote is, and what the
difference is with an endnote, how they are numbered.

I just want a instruction like

MenuItemA->SubItemB->OptionC->Enter your text.

Sorry I am a bit frustrated at the moment.
 
Insert | Reference | Footnote. After you've set the footnote defaults you
want in a given document, you can use Ctrl+Alt+F to open the pane for a new
footnote.

I don't know how you can have been "reading the help files for half an hour"
without finding the topic "Insert a footnote or an endnote," which is the
fifth listing (I'll grant you, it should be the first) if you type "insert
footnote" in the "Type a question for help" box.
 
Did you really do the search. Look up Footnote and you will find an entry
entitled "Insert a Footnote or Endnote". While this is opened, I have
question to answer a question that has caused an argument with a collegue,
does my period terminating the previous sentence go inside or outside the
closing quote mark?
 
Marsh:

It depends on whether or not you're following a given style guide, and if
so, which style guide you're following.

In general, in US English publications, periods and commas go inside the
ending quotation mark. In UK English publications, all punctuation goes
outside the ending quotation mark.

There are many exceptions to these general rules, but in the case you
presented, for a US publication, I'd put the period inside the last quotation
mark.

Bear
 
Thanks Bear. Then if I were to quote you,
"It depends on whether or not you're following a given style guide, and if
so, which style guide you're following."
The sentence above with the quotes is actually terminated with quote mark
rather than period. I do not question you correctness, just 30 years ago, in
the Los Angeles, California schools, the taught it the other way.
I guess I owe my collegue a beer.
 
Sorry. You can always argue that you were using the British convention
because it's more consistent and makes more sense. I mean if there's a beer
at stake...

Bear
 
Marsh said:
Did you really do the search. Look up Footnote and you will find an entry
entitled "Insert a Footnote or Endnote".
Click to expand...

Yes. It's the 13th article and it's just outside the window. I did not
scroll, did not see the bar, and tried to find it in the other 12 articles
listed Ah, sometimes I am just a bit blind I fear. And I also did not think
of a footnote as a part of 'references', in the insert menu.

Sorry for the silly question but I REALLY just could not find it.
 
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