#HOW TO MAKE FOOTNOTES IN WORD APPEAR AT BOTTOM OF COLUMN MANUAL#
(The biggest drawback being the "intensive" labor involved in making the manual layout work properly.) Either method is fraught with drawbacks that are immediately evident to any long-time Word user. This means doing something like manually placing footnotes in the footer of the page, or using a two-cell table to put text in the main body of the document. The only way to work around this problem is to "fudge" and do a manual layout.
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When you insert it, the one-column section no longer resides on the same page as the two-column text, despite the continuous break. Make sure the footnote is set to appear at the bottom of the page. (This is easily done with a continuous section break splitting the two parts of the page.) Next, insert a footnote in the two-column section, in the top-half of the page. For instance, try making the top half of a page two columns and the bottom half one column. This requirement can cause other problems, too. Unfortunately, Word doesn't allow you to do this-the number of columns in the footnotes and the main body must match. For instance, you may want footnotes to use two columns, while the main body uses only one. When laying out your documents, you may want to have the number of columns in your footnotes be different from the number used in the main body of the document.
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How you create and use footnotes within your document has been discussed in other issues of WordTips.
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For some documents (such as academic or legal works), they are absolutely critical. Footnotes can be a handy feature to use within a document.