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Why is the footnote callout not raised?

Anonymous
2022-06-18T22:49:23+00:00

I am writing a paper that has some footnotes. For one of the footnotes, the callout is on a word in a Heading 2. For some reason, the callout is not raised up above the text. The 7 is the footnote callout. The 8 is a number tjat I typed and then raised it to a superscript using Ctrl+Shift++.

Is there any way fix this bug?

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Paul Edstein 82,861 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2022-06-19T12:04:39+00:00

I have no idea how the Heading 2 style was changed to the Georgia (Heading) font. I have never heard of that font. I just checked severtal other documents and they all use the Cambria (Heading) font.

How can I change all of the Heading styles back to Cambria?

Change the font for the heading paragraph to Cambria, then:

• right-click on the paragraph-break;

• right-click on the little arrow at the bottom-right corner of the Styles pane (or press Ctrl-Alt-Shift-S);

• click on the dropdown that appears when you hover over the Heading 2 Style name;

• choose 'update Heading 2 to Match Selection'.

I changed the font size of the Footnote Reference to 15pt. That helps, but it is still not looking like superscript 8.

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As I said before,

Number characters in the Georgia font you're using have different heights - some ascend above the line; others descend below it. The numeral 1 is one of the smallest digits in that series, with no ascender or descender.

The 8 has an ascender. Changing the Heading Style to the Cambria font should resolve that particular issue. You should nevertheless delete the point size specification from the 'Footnote Reference' Style.

As for the post by chitraltour, methinks he/she was just parroting my initial thoughts before seeing your document.

As you'll see from the Style dialog box for the Footnote Reference Style in your reply to chitraltour, the point size is set to 11. Delete the 11pt attribute. That way, the superscripted Footnote Reference's point size will match that of the surrounding text.

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  1. Stefan Blom 342.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2022-06-19T19:04:40+00:00

    >>1. I cannot find the Cambria (Headings) font. I changed all of the heading styles to Cambria, but was not able to change them, to Cambria (Headings), which is what all of the headings are set to in most of my other documents.<<

    As I said in a previous reply, "Cambria (Headings)" indicates that you are using the font defined as the heading font in the current theme. What you can do is explicitly change the font to "Cambria" to ensure that you see that font, regardless of the selected document theme.

    >>2. I thought that setting Heading 2 to be based on Heading 1, and Heading 3 on Heading 2, etc., would mean that changing the font, say, for Heading 1 would change it for all lower headings. I just tried that, but it didn't work.<<

    In Word, style inheritance only works with settings that have not been explicitly changed in the "child" style. In other words, if Heading 2 is based on Heading 1, and you have modified the font of Heading 2, then the font name won't be affected by subsequent changes to the font of Heading 1.

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  2. Stefan Blom 342.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2022-06-19T17:43:30+00:00

    >>I have no idea how the Heading 2 style was changed to the Georgia (Heading) font. I have never heard of that font. I just checked severtal other documents and they all use the Cambria (Heading) font. <<

    The "headings" part of the font name simply indicates that the font is the heading font defined by the current document theme.

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  3. Paul Edstein 82,861 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2022-06-19T07:02:12+00:00

    Two observations:

    1. Number characters in the Georgia font you're using have different heights - some ascend above the line; others descend below it. The numeral 1 is one of the smallest digits in that series, with no ascender or descender; and
    2. The surrounding text has a 15pt font but, instead of just being superscripted, someone has reduced the Footnote Reference Style's font size to 11pt. Thus, the superscripted 1 is even smaller than the superscripted 15pt it should be.

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  4. Suzanne S Barnhill 277.8K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2022-06-19T01:54:00+00:00

    Have you checked to see whether the Footnote Reference character style is still formatted as Superscript? (It is by default.)

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