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=      I haven't yet had occasion to try using very long footnotes, but
= the MS Word 3.0 manual seems to indicate that these are handled better
= than in version 1.05, which would keep all the lines of a very long footnote 
= together on a page with its corresponding footnote reference mark. 
= 
=      From page 60 of the manual:
= 
=      "Word prints a short line between text and footnotes.  For footnotes 
= that carry over to the next page, word prints a margin-to-margin line
= between the text and the remainder of the footnote.  You can change either
= of these separators.  You can also specify a continuation notice for Word
= to include with footnotes that are too long and carry over to the next page." 
= 
=    Aron Roberts  Tolman Microcomputer Facility     
=                  csaron@opal.Berkeley.EDU  CSARON@UCBCMSA.BITNET

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= I assume that the notorious Word 1.05 footnote bug referred to in an
= earlier posting is the problem with printing long footnotes (which seem
= to totally mess up printing). Is this indeed fixed in 3.0, or does someone
= know a work-around for this problem? We have had to advise everyone to
= use WriteNow in the mean-time, which works fine with footnotes.
= Maurits   (teiltje@u2.dartmouth.edu)

And thus, so far, no definitive YES as to whether long footnotes are still
a problem in Word 3.0.  Sounds like it has enough other problems that I won't
touch it with a 3 meter pole until 3.0.0.0.1 or later.

Jeff Myers