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Christina Garcia - 31 Jul 2006 20:09 GMT

I have a Word 2003 doc. When you select Insert/Reference/Footnote... it adds
the footnote instead of opening the Footnote and Endnote Dialag box. I need
to change the endnote numbering style from "i" to "1". Thanks

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Peter Jamieson - 01 Aug 2006 09:14 GMT

I don't know what has happened, but try the following:
a. select one of the footnote/endnote markers in the footnote/endnote area
(i.e., not in the main body of the document)
b. right click
c. choose Note Options

Peter Jamieson

>I have a Word 2003 doc. When you select Insert/Reference/Footnote... it
>adds
> the footnote instead of opening the Footnote and Endnote Dialag box. I
> need
> to change the endnote numbering style from "i" to "1". Thanks

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Christina Garcia - 02 Aug 2006 01:58 GMT

Hi Peter, thanks for responding. Your suggestion is correct. Both (1)
Insert/Reference Footnote or; (2) selecting note options in the footnote
pane's shortcut pane opens the Footnote and Endnote dialog box.

However, because of the extensive customizations in our Word environment,
neither of these two Word native options are available to us.

Opening Word in safe mode (Ctrl + launch Word) bypassed all customizations
allowing for the endnote modifications to be made. We saved the document
locally, opened it in customized Word and saved it to our DM program.

I'm new to this community and the level of professional enthusiasm to help
the hapless is the best I've ever experienced. Thank you again for your time
and efforts to help us out.

> I don't know what has happened, but try the following:
> a. select one of the footnote/endnote markers in the footnote/endnote area
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> > need
> > to change the endnote numbering style from "i" to "1". Thanks

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Christina Garcia - 02 Aug 2006 02:42 GMT

I wanted to add that the Ctrl+Word launch was Cindy M.'s (a community MVP)
suggestion.

> Hi Peter, thanks for responding. Your suggestion is correct. Both (1)
> Insert/Reference Footnote or; (2) selecting note options in the footnote
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> > > need
> > > to change the endnote numbering style from "i" to "1". Thanks

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Peter Jamieson - 02 Aug 2006 08:55 GMT

Thanks for the bits of feedback...

Peter Jamieson

>I wanted to add that the Ctrl+Word launch was Cindy M.'s (a community MVP)
> suggestion.
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>> > > need
>> > > to change the endnote numbering style from "i" to "1". Thanks

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 01 Aug 2006 10:33 GMT

Hi =?Utf-8?B?Q2hyaXN0aW5hIEdhcmNpYQ==?=,

> I have a Word 2003 doc. When you select Insert/Reference/Footnote... it adds
> the footnote instead of opening the Footnote and Endnote Dialag box. I need
> to change the endnote numbering style from "i" to "1".

If you hold down the CTRL key when starting Word, then try the menu command
above, do you get the dialog box?

If yes, you probably have a macro somewhere on your system named InsertFootnote
that's just inserting a footnote.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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Christina Garcia - 02 Aug 2006 01:32 GMT

Cindy, I love you! I had TOTALLY forgotten about safe mode. After the post,
I did zero in on the customized macro causing the problem, but as most
developer's do, our developer locked the customizations.

I tried it the minute I got in the office and it worked. All is calm once
again in attorney-world. I'm having the developer make the necessary
modifications.

> Hi =?Utf-8?B?Q2hyaXN0aW5hIEdhcmNpYQ==?=,
>
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> This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply
> in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 02 Aug 2006 17:25 GMT

Hi Christina,

> I tried it the minute I got in the office and it worked. All is calm once
> again in attorney-world. I'm having the developer make the necessary
> modifications.

Glad things are moving along (more) smoothly :-)

Cindy Meister

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