I am contemplating organizing a massive march on Redmond to protest their racist discrimination against footnotes! We shall overcome!

Anyway, the best that I have seen (of course with the help of other members here) is to insert a frame into the text area of the doc and drag it to the footnote area. However being that many of my FN spread over multiple pages I see that you cannot drag the frame to another page, SO I am stuck again

I would even be willing to create all the margins in Illustrator and then paste them into the FN area but I see you can only paste inline graphics into the FN and cannot move them freely to the margin. Am I stuck again?

Frustrated,

Susan

Susan

I've previously recommended you don't use footnotes for your particular documentation as you've described it. Now you also want to include graphics in the footnote area, I feel like it is worth suggesting it again. Sometimes it is worth taking a step back to consider the audience rather than remaining fixated on solving recurring problems caused by your earlier design decisions.

Have a think about how your audience will want to digest your content. How do they read the original text with/without your analysis? If you were the new reader coming at the document does a variable sized footnote and side graphics area help their reading flow or does it hinder? If they want to read the original text once and then come back for the analysis does that work with your current layout? Are they working on a computer screen, hand-held device or are they working on paper?

In my opinion the task you are attempting to complete is better done by using columns on the page and putting the original text on one side and using the other column to put your feedback content. From a design point of view, I think this would help you place your analysis content AND it helps the audience interact with your work.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

Well, I have totally succumbed to extreme pressure and have found the courage to redo my entire doc. I will be putting the ancient doc on the first few pages with phony endnotes (just letters to reference my notes in the second part of the DOC).

While I feel bad that by doing this I will be admitting that I have wasted a lot of my precious time, at least I learned a lot with the help of this forum's members.

This will actually allow much more freedom to add inline captions and graphical as well the capability to add footnotes to my notes, which was impossible before because WOrds does not allow footnotes to footnotes.

I appreciate all the attention I have received here and as McCarther said: "I shall return!"

Sincerely,

Susan

There should be relatively painless ways to move away from the footnotes you already have. If you convert the footnotes to endnotes you can copy all of that content at once and paste it as regular text.

If your document is going to be used electronically, you can then add hyperlinks in the original text to jump to your analysis (ex footnote) information.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia