I also don't understand why it wasn't touted in the earlier versions since
it's such a self-evidently useful feature. Maybe it was just one of those
things the developers asked for, the coders provided, and the documentation
writers overlooked.

If I search the KB for "suppress endnotes," I turn up four articles. Two
appear to be pretty much irrelevant, but the ones that are relevant are:

"WD97: Suppress Endnotes Option Unavailable"
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=196553

"WD: Suppress Endnotes Option Unavailable"
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=123299

Now the interesting thing about the latter is that the "applies to" section
is as follows:

 * Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0
 * Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0a
 * Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0c
 * Microsoft Word for Windows 95 7.0
 * Microsoft Word for Windows 95 7.0a
 * Microsoft Word for the Macintosh 6.0
 * Microsoft Word for the Macintosh 6.0.1
 * Microsoft Word for the Macintosh 6.0.1a
 * Microsoft Word for Windows NT 6.0

Can anyone with Word 6.0 and/or 95 (Beth?) confirm that the check box exists
there, too?
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)

Bonjour,

Dans son message, < Stefan Blom > ?crivait :
In this message, < Stefan Blom > wrote:

Maybe the confusion stems from the fact that there was a new feature
introduced I believe, in Word 2000 (or 2002 ?). That is: the ability to
control endnote numbering per section, like page numbering (Restart at one,
or some given number, or continuous from previous...). Before, if you chose
to restart numbering at 1 at the beginning of a section than all sections
restarted at 1.
But AFAICT it is flawed.
I experienced the same thing a poster did some time ago. He put it so
clearly, I am going to quote him here:

<quote>
Failed "This Section" continuous Foot/Endnote Numbering

Word has a new feature: one can select, whether the
numbering feature of endnotes and footnotes is to be
applied to the "Whole document" or to "This Section" only.
The problem is: it doesn't seem to work.

Situation:
a) I have a document with 5 sections, each of them has
endnotes (or alternatively footnotes, which doesn't make a
difference)
b) Section 2, 3, and 4 belong to one article. It was split
into three sections, because section number 3, in the
middle of this article, needed a different rendering
(e.g., landscape instead of portrait, or single column in
stead of double column, and similar cases). But because
all three sections belong to one article, I need the
endnotes to be numbered continuously starting with 1 in
section 2 and counted up through and including section 4.
Section 5, however, should again start with 1, as it is a
different article, so is section 1. So I start up with
having all sections restart their endnote numbering with 1
(Restart each section. whole document).
c) If I place the cursor into section 3 and choose
Insert/Footnote/, then select "Endnotes", "Numbering:
Continuous", "Apply changes to: This section", then one
would expect the endnote numbering to continue where the
endnotes had left off in the previous section, section 2.
However, this is not what happens. Word actually pretends
that all endnotes so far, which occurred in the "Whole
document," have been numbered continuously and continuous
from there. For example:
If section 1 has ten endnotes and section 2 has nine, then
the first endnote of section 3 will NOT be 10 (9+1), but
20 (10+9+1).
d) I tried to have section three "restart" with "Start at:
20", but it ignores any start number higher than one. If
entering a start number higher than one with "Continuous"
numbering, it will add this number on top of all endnotes
(here: 20+10+9+1).
That doesn't seem to make any sense. I would greatly
appreciate if it worked, as I frequently have to manually
set pseudo-foot/endnotes to circumvent this, but either I
haven't understood how it works or it doesn't work at all.

(Michael Martin - December 31, 2003)
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(see
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=027001c3cfe8%24ab53e4
30%24a301280a%40phx.gbl&rnum=5&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26q%3
Dendnotes%2Bnumbering%26btnG%3DSearch%26meta%3Dgroup%253Dmicrosoft.public.word.*
for completre thread. BTW, is there a way to post a shortened version of a
hyperlink....?)

I experienced the exact same thing...

Hi Stefan,

Wasn't the first time you did that to me, either <g>

But I don't mind... much, dum-dee-dum!

Regards,
Klaus

Been out of town, but as a frequent poster of "for Word 2000, post back for
a macro solution" I too will admit my shame....thanks much for the info,
Stefan. Like we don't all know better than to trust Word!

<laughing>, Dayo