Footnote numbering

Question

I need to number footnotes in word consecutively through chapters of a thesis, starting at 1 for each chapter. However, within some chapters I have section breaks to enable me to include landscape format pages (which don't have footnotes on them) in an otherwise portrait format document. When I return to the portrait pages, my footnotes start at one again. Please can anyone explain how I can link the footnote numbering across the section breaks so that each chapter has continuous numbering, but each chapter starts at 1? Thank you.

Answer 1

Yes, that's really the only effective way to do it. A shame, though, that after all these years, MS hasn't come up with a better solution.

Answer 2

As you know, section breaks are needed to change the page orientation. You also have section breaks for each chapter to restart the footnote numbering.

Unfortunately, Word won't let you selectively restart or not restart the footnote numbering per section (not in a reliable way, at least). You either restart for each section or you keep the numbering continuous throughout the document.

Answer 3

That sounds like an excellent workaround.

Answer 4

Thank you for your reply. I have screenshotted the landscape pages and reinserted them as images that I can then spin round 90 degrees. Hopefully that will remove the requirement for extra section changes. I really appreciate your response: it's saved me a lot (more) of messing around.