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In comp.text.tex, fangchin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang) writes:

>   Is there a way to provide a footnote to an entry of a table?  I 
>   have tried everything in Appendix C.2.3 in Lamport's book without
>   any success.  I only got the footnote mark, but the text
>   portion never showed up at the bottom of the page the table resides.

Yep, if you look carefully, \footnote will only work inside paragraph
mode, and won't work inside a box (except within MINIPAGE). Fortunately
the solution is dead easy, first put

        \footnotemark

where you want the mark inside the table, and then as soon as you've
got back into normal paragraph mode (like immediately after your table):

        \footnotetext{ <this is the missing footnote text> }

You don't even need to worry about the footnote counters, good old
LaTeX increments them correctly. If only ALL questions had such a 
clean solution.....

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   Malc Standring