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Footnotes - Footnote Option Uses Last Active
DocumentID: 604651
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:30:38 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: The customer is experiencing a problem with the selection of fonts for footnotes. Follow the steps below to duplicate:
1.      At the top of the document, select a font for the document text (Ctrl-F8, 4).
2.      Go into Footnote (Ctrl-F7) and select Options. You do not need to make any changes to the options, you just need the code to be in the document, so you can simply press F7 to exit back to the document.
3.      Choose the default font for the document text (Ctrl-F8, 4). Solutions: The footnote option reads the last font that was active. If you place the cursor before the footnote option, create a footnote and then go into the font selection while in the footnote, you will see that the font is the document font. There may not be any documentation on this, but it is working as designed.

A good workaround is illustrated in the following example: A customer would like his footnotes to print in Times Roman 8pt and the document to print in Times Roman 12pt. He needs to use a footnote option to change the appearance of the footnotes. He can do this by putting the codes in the following order: [Font: Times Roman 8pt] [Ftn Opt] [Font Times Roman 12pt] [Footnote 1:..].

This also applies to Attribute and Size codes associated with footnote option codes, e.g., Small, Fine, Italic, Thick.

One user found that half of the footnote printed in regular text and the other half printed in italics. Inserting a new Footnote Option code corrected this problem.

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