Friday, March 7, 2008

Customizing the Separator Line for Your Word 2007 Document's Footnotes

Sometimes you want to change the footnote size, direction (e.g. in right to left languages such as Farsi), etc. Follow this technique to reach the settings for footnotes:
  1. Goto "View" tab (menu) and select "Draft" in "Document Views".
  2. Goto "Reference" tab and select "Show Notes" in "Footnotes".
  3. A window appears on the bottom of the screen. Select "Footnote Separator" from the drop-down menu on this screen.
  4. Micro$oft word shows you the line and now you can customize it according to your need.

Thanks to TechRepublic for its tip about Word 2003!

8 comments:

Iyad said...

Thanks a million for the tip! My hair was turning grey trying to figure this out. But now: how do I make the footnotes run right-to-left without having to move every single one? Could you possibly help me out on this one as well?

Mohammad Javad Dousti said...

You may change it by applying right-to-left to footnote's text. If you use a "style" for your footnotes, you may just change your style.

Unknown said...

Hi man, thank you so much.. I've been looking for this tip for 4 hours... this is the right way for that.. thank you so much...

غلامرضا محمّدی said...

بسیار بسیار تشکر

Yosef =) said...

I have to go all the way to make this comment....for this text is what I have been looking for!

Thanks man, very helpful! =)

Inbal said...

Thank you very much me and my advisor havn't been able to figure it out for months now. You are a master! :)

Anonymous said...

Thank you very much

it was so helpfull

Anonymous said...

Thanks, good job.