how to renumber footnotes with each chapter

#How to renumber footnotes with each chapter plus

If this approach doesn't work, try just a bit of a different approach: The purpose of these steps is to try to remove any confusion that Word may be experiencing and cause it to renumber all the footnotes.

In the Replace With box enter the following: ^&.

Click OK to close the Find Style dialog box.

Locate and click on the Footnote Reference style.

With the insertion point in the Find What box, click Format and choose Style.

Click the More button, if it is available.

Press Ctrl+H to display the Replace tab of the Find and Replace dialog box. Almost all the books that we publish at the University of Chicago restart the numbering of notes (whether footnotes or endnotes) at 1 at the beginning of each.

You can figure this out by putting the insertion point in the section containing footnote 24, displaying the Footnote and Endnote dialog box, clicking Options and examining how the numbering is configured in that dialog box.įinally, if you've tried everything else and the numbering is still messed up, try to 'force' Word to examine the numbers it is using. It is also possible that the document has multiple sections in it and that each section (or at least the section containing footnote 24) has been configured so that footnotes for that section begin with a specific number. Display the dialog box again and you can figure out if this is the case. Meaning, whoever created the footnotes actually inserted the numbers within the Custom Mark field of the Footnote and Endnote dialog box. If you are doing your edits without Track Changes being turned on, then it is possible that your footnotes don't use automatic numbering. When the changes are accepted or rejected, then Word will renumber the footnotes accordingly. Word doesn't renumber the footnotes because the footnote is still there-albeit marked for deletion. In that case, deleting the footnote doesn't actually delete it, but simply marks it as deleted text. When many people edit documents, they do so with Track Changes turned on. The answer could be quite simple, and related to using the Track Changes feature of Word. Roger wonders what could be causing this problem with the footnotes.

The footnote was actually deleted, but the remaining footnotes did not renumber. Roger went into the document body, found the footnote marker for the appropriate footnote, and then deleted it. The document had 90 footnotes in it, and he needed to delete footnote 23. The footnotes should start at 1 for each new chapter appended, but of course attaching a second document like this made the footnotes for the second chapter begin where the first chapter left off. I used Insert > File for a test run on combining two chapters. Each chapter is a separate odt document with footnotes staring at 1.

#How to renumber footnotes with each chapter plus

Plus, who wants “Chapter 1” plus its title in a HEADER? Most published books have it even lower than the point where the first line appears on normal pages.Roger was sent a Word document that he needed to edit. I’m combining chapters to make a single manuscript. And of ocurse, the chapter number and title must not appear on EVERY page. The result was that “Chapter 1” appeared in the headers of every page on both chapters, so there was no way of telling whether the footnote setting would have worked or not. Then I read the Help page, “Inserting a Chapter Name and Number in a Header or a Footer.” I followed every step. How can I reset a footnote number to start a new sequence for each chapter?Īlso: I tried Format -> Footnote/Endnote and then selected “Chapter.” That doesn’t work because it doesn’t recognize the beginning of a new chapter. I am hoping that LibreOffice (or OpenOffice) now can do it too. I found a thread from 2010 on another forum about this issue, and apparently at that time there was no way to do it, although the originator said Microsoft Word had a simple way to do this very thing. I need to reset each first footnote for each chapter to 1.

I used Insert -> File for a test run on combining two chapters. I’m combining chapters to make a single manuscript.