Tuesday, August 07, 2007
(9:01 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Footnotes: Ease of Use
My life, and I imagine many of my readers' lives, would be marginally improved if I could set up Word so that, with some keystroke (perhaps an unused F-key), I could jump from editing a footnote to resuming the body text.Here's what I know so far (I'm using Word 2003). First, the only defined shortcut key for footnotes pertains to insertion. Once you're in, as far as the keyboard is concerned, you're all in. The mouse-based way to get out is either to manually click on the body text or to double-click on the footnote number itself. If I do the latter, however, Word puts the cursor before the footnote reference. Clearly that is wrong -- the cursor should be placed after the footnote reference so that I can continue typing away.
So to achieve my goal, I need to develop a macro that will activate whatever command is associated with double-clicking a footnote, then advance the cursor. Ideally, said macro will do nothing more malevolent than "beep" if invoked when I am not in the act of editing a footnote. Is this possible? I'll let you know if I come up with something. Until then, feel free to give me a solution in comments.
