Footnotes in Microsoft Word

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/10/06 at 3:17pm

I apologize for the stupid question, but I've been playing around trying to find and answer, and this is really bugging me.

The footnotes are automatically created in Times New Roman, but I prefer to use Arial (my entire paper is in Arial, and I think my footnotes should match). Is there a way to set it so that all footnotes will automatically be in a font other than the default, or do I have to continue making the chance for each and every individual footnote as I create it?

Thanks.

[ihearttheatre]

Posted: 4/10/06 at 3:19pm

The only solution I know would be to make Arial your default font.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/10/06 at 3:22pm

That would be fine, if I can figure out how!

[ihearttheatre]

Posted: 4/10/06 at 3:25pm

Easy.

Go to Format: Font. Click on Arial. In the lower left corner there's a button that says "Default...". Click that. :)

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/10/06 at 3:25pm

Got it, and it does fix the footnotes! Thanks.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 4/10/06 at 3:30pm

Speaking of MS Word, my bullets are always messed up now...I can never get them to work correctly. So every time I type notes, the bullets mess up and they don't always indent over correctly, etc. Is there a way to get it back to "default"...I've tried searching the help but can't find anything, and when I go start a new document, the same thing happens again. MS Word, you pi*s me off!

[ihearttheatre]

Posted: 4/10/06 at 3:32pm

Format...Bullets and Numbering...."Reset" Button (in the lower left corner)

Have you tried that?

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 4/10/06 at 10:06pm

It's grayed out...maybe it's not as messed up as I thought it was. Sometimes if I am typing into an outline that is already typed up by the lecturer, and I try to add my own notes with additional bullets, it gets messed up.