My footnotes don't automatically superscript...how do I fix?

perrysub

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Mar 30, 2008, 10:07:00 AM3/30/08

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When I add a footnote, it's not superscripted automatically, and I have to
manually change each one. How do I change default settings to superscript
footnotes?

Graham Mayor

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Mar 30, 2008, 10:38:58 AM3/30/08

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Select the footnote reference and modify the footnote reference style to
include the superscript formatting option.

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Jay Freedman

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Mar 30, 2008, 10:43:05 AM3/30/08

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The footnote number is formatted with the built-in style named Footnote
Reference. This is supposed to be a character style whose only setting is
Superscript. If the style has been changed to something else, right-click the
style in the Styles pane, select Modify, and change the formatting back to
Superscript. In 2003 and earlier, check the "Add to template" box in the Modify
dialog; in 2007, select the "New documents based on this template" option, which
does the same thing.

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perrysub

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Mar 30, 2008, 11:02:00 AM3/30/08

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Jay,
Thanks for the help, but I didn't see how to change the footnote. When
I went to modify the "Normal" style, I had an option to change footnote text,
but not the footnote number itself. The footnote text is fine, it's the
actual footnote number in the body of the document that I'm having problems
with. I have Office 2007.

perrysub

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Mar 30, 2008, 11:25:01 AM3/30/08

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Graham, I have Office 2007...I'm not sure how to do what you're recommending...

grammatim

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Mar 30, 2008, 12:58:43 PM3/30/08

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Not the Normal style, the Footnote Reference style. If you were in
Word 2003, you could make it appear in your list of styles by going
through the drop-down list at the bottom of the Styles & Formatting
panel, but I gather it's done differently in 2007.

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Jay Freedman

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Mar 30, 2008, 7:59:54 PM3/30/08

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In Word 2007, first press Ctrl+Shift+S to display the Apply Styles floating
dialog. Select the footnote's number or symbol, the one that should be
superscript. In the dropdown of the Apply Styles dialog you should see "Footnote
Reference", which is the name of the style that's automatically applied to the
footnote number. Click the Modify button.

In the Modify Style dialog that appears, select the "New documents based on this
template" option. Then click the Format button at the bottom left of the dialog
and choose Font. In the Font dialog that appears next, check the Superscript
option, leave everything else unchanged, and click OK in each dialog.

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Graham Mayor

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Mar 31, 2008, 2:29:07 AM3/31/08

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With Word 2007 select the footnote reference then CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+S pops up
the styles dialog with the footnore reference style highlighted. Right click
that style and select modify. Change the style to what you want, then check
the box 'New documents based on this template'. Save the template if
prompted when closing Word.

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Mar 20, 2017, 11:24:47 AM3/20/17

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You've probably long since figured this out, but in the event that someone else googles this problem... I too could not find "Footnote Reference" as one of the options in the dropdown menu in the style box, only "Footnote Text."

To solve, click on options, in the first dropdown menu "Select styles to show," choose "All styles," instead of the default "Recommended."