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Summary: Scholarly documents often require that you reference different footnotes from each other. Thus, you may need to refer within the body of one footnote to a different footnote. Using fields and bookmarks you can easily create the dynamic references you need. (This tip works with Microsoft Word 97, Word 2000, Word 2002, and Word 2003.)
If you are developing a scholarly document that includes numerous footnotes, it is not unusual to need cross-references in the footnotes. The problem is that if you use automatic footnote numbering, which is a powerful Word feature, the cross-references can quickly become a burden to update manually. Word allows you to automatically cross-reference footnotes so that your cross-references always stay correct once set. This is done as follows:
Tip #1013 applies to Microsoft Word versions: 97 2000 2002 2003
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