Two separate types of footnotes in Word?

PhilT988ByPhilT988

Hello first of all,

I am currently writing a term paper for school (Abitur class of 2025) and would like to include both the sources as a footnote and small comments as a footnote.

It would be cleaner if the sources were indicated with numbers, for example, and the notes with letters.

Unfortunately, I have only found the option to mark all footnotes either with numbers or all footnotes with letters.

The footnotes should be numbered consecutively (i.e. 1, 2, 3…/A, B, C…) and not restarted after each page or something similar.

Thanks in advance for any answers

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DonCredo
DonCredo
7 months ago

Hi! After my knowledge, you can only control the footnotes once, i.e. what you would like to have not.

However, what you could do manually is to format differently, e.g. set the notes cursive – but they would have been classified with the actual footnotes in terms of numbering, e.g. (the numbers introduce you up) :

  1. that is a footnote
  2. that is a note
  3. that is also a note
  4. that is again a footnote

That’s all I can do – at least I don’t know.

Gruss

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PhilT988
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PhilT988
7 months ago
Reply to  DonCredo

Thanks for the answer, fortunately the Macro of BerchGerch works, so I don’t have to do this manually.

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BerchGerch
BerchGerch
7 months ago

Hello,

Word can’t do that. You can only work with a kind of footnote numbering within the same document.

I have programmed a macro years ago, which, as a result, allows exactly what you want, once numerical footnotes and parallel small letters a, b, c …

The macro is in . To get capital letters instead of the small letters, you must in the line

.Fields.Add Range:=.Range, Type:=wdFieldEmpty, Text:="SEQ Fußnoten \* alphabetic ", PreserveFormatting:=True

replace the \* alphabetic with \* ALPHABETIC.

How the macro works:

  1. At the point where a footnote of type a, b, c … or in your case A, B, C … is to be produced, the macro generates a high-level special character (+) as a footnote (i.e. both in the document text and at the foot of the page), which is hidden both in the document and in the footnote text, so that it is not printed.
  2. Then a high alphabetical sequence field is created, which ultimately represents your letter footnote in the document text.
  3. In addition, the macro generates a text mark on this sequence field. So you have one more text mark in the document per letter footnote at the end.
  4. Now the macro jumps to the footnote (or the +) at the end of the page and additionally generates a raised cross reference to the text mark content of the letter footnote in the document text, so that everything looks as if it is a letter footnote.

So you use the normal footnote insert function for your numerical footnotes and the macro for alphabetical footnotes.

Important: If you between two alphabetical footnotes later insert a new alphabetical footnote, the counting of your footnotes in the document and footnote text is no longer correct, since the sequence fields and the associated cross references have not yet been updated.

To do this in a slide, simply turn on the print view (Stroke + P press and per Esc– Return to the document immediately). Then all sequence fields and cross references in the document are updated at once and the count is correct again.

I tested the macro several times. So it should work. It’s with me anyway. Nevertheless, the use is completely at its own risk. I have no liability for any damage that may arise from the use of the macro.

A feedback would be nice and please report to questions!

Greeting, BerchGerch

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PhilT988
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PhilT988
7 months ago
Reply to  BerchGerch

Thank you for the answer.
I just tested it and the macro works perfectly, which saves me a lot of work.
So thank you again, also for how detailed the stated answer to the other contribution was.

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