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to: THOMAS RYAN
from: NORMAN ZACOUR
date: 1997-02-16 23:37:00
subject: Multiple footnote refere

Bill Hliwa asked:
 BH> Anyone know how to make multiple references to a footnote (in wp 6.0,
BH> 6.1 or 7.0)?
BH> In other words, if you end a sentence and create footnote #1, then
BH> create footnote #2 a few sentences later, then a few sentences later
BH> need to reference footnote #1 -- how can you do it?  Obviously, you
BH> could just insert a superscripted "1", but that's not linked to the
BH> footnote.  If footnote #1 later becomes #2 (by adding a footnote
BH> earlier in the document), that superscripted footnote would need to be
BH> manually edited.
There's an ambiguity about using the noun "reference" as a verb that is 
confusing here. I take it that later in the text you may want to refer 
back to the contents, arguments, or authority cited in footnote 1, to 
use your example, and make sure that if footnote 1 changes its number 
later on because of other additions, the reference to it will remain 
valid; i.e. if footnote 1 becomes footnote 4 because of the insertion of 
three new notes at the top, you want your reference to refer to 4, not 
1. If this is what you're looking for you need to read the WordPerfect 
Help file about cross-references, how to mark the Reference and the 
Target, and how to Generate the cross-reference after any changes. This 
applies to page numbers and figure numbers as well as the numbers of 
endnotes or footnotes. When any of these change as you edit a document, 
the cross-references to them are updated.
Norman Zacour
zacourn@post.queensu.ca
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