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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:
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2015-04-29 00:06:27
Sigh.
I only discover this tip into my 945th footnote. The handy "cross-reference" feature is only half dynamic: it assigns the cross-reference footnote number once and for all. Add another footnote early on, and all the following cross-references are off by 1.
Didn't earlier versions of word change the cross-reference numbers automatically?
Anyway, thanks for this workaround, as clumsy as it is.
2014-12-01 08:10:12
julio
If I place the cursor anywhere in the main text in Word and press 'ctrl+t' to select all and click the right button of the mouse, there is an 'update' option. But if I do the same procedure in any footnote, there is no 'update' option. This problem should be corrected by Microsoft, shouldn't it?
2014-01-14 05:45:11
ZEESHAN
You are great. This is really a super magic tip. Thank you so much.
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