Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated November 5, 2020)
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Figure 1. The Cross-reference dialog box.
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2022-01-02 00:44:04
Lester Language
Your knowledge of Word always amazes me. However, this suggestion seems a little too convoluted. If I'm not mistaken, the Chicago Manual suggests using non-numeric symbols like '*' or '†' or '‡' for footnotes within quotations or within footnotes, and I believe gives a hierarchy of such symbols that allows for up to four or five footnotes within a quote or footnote. Carrying things a bit farther, to add a footnote to a footnote that is already within a footnote, one might use the same set of symbols, but in reverse, or perhaps offset by starting the second-level subnote with the symbol corresponding to the current level, thus allowing for up to five levels.¹ This approach of course doesn't sequentially number subnote along with the first-level notes, but it could be argued that if subnotes are numbered the numbering should start over in each note containing a subnote. OR the first subnote should be numbered '1.1', the first sub(sub)note within it '1.1.1', etc.
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¹ This would be your normal footnote.*
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*A footnote is a text inserted outside the main text for purposes of explanation, comment, etc.,
usually inserted at the foot† of the page.
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† ...whence the term 'footnote.'
(The dagger and double dagger symbols should of course be in superscript.)
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