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Now that the whole paper is formatter,
your last challenge is inserting footnotes and formatting them, and
since by now you have become a MS Word expert, let me introduce you
to some neat features of MS Word.
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To insert footnotes,
position your cursor where you want to insert your footnote and
then go to the menu bar and press Insert,
then choose Reference, and then Footnote...
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This will open a dialog window. In this dialog window under
Location, set
Footnotes to
Bottom of Page. This will allow you to match rule
14.15 in Turabian. Then press
Insert.
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Rule 14.13 in Turabian specifies the rest of the formatting for
footnotes. Here you have a choice, either you format every
single note, one at a time as you insert them, or you learn
about Styles and Formatting. I will assume that you would
rather learn than incessantly format footnotes over and over, so
let's do it!
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The trick to doing this only once is to get it set up from the
start, so right after step 2. above, before you type in any
text, do the following: go to the menu bar and press
Format and then
Styles and Formatting....
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This displays the Styles and Formatting
Task Pane. Here you will see, in the
Formatting of selected text window, Footnote Text,
right click on it and choose Modify...
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This will open a dialog window. At the bottom left hand corner
of the window click on Format,
and choose Paragraph...
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This will open another dialog window. Under
Indentation set Special
to First line and
By to 0.25"
(this indents the beginning of the footnote about 5 spaces).
Also under Spacing make sure
Line spacing is set for
Single and set
After to
10pt (this automatically puts a blank line following
the footnote). Click on OK.
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Before you close the Modify Style
window, make sure you know whether your professor wants the
footnotes in 12pt font or
10 pt font. As a general rule, the
college requires 12pt and the seminary
10pt, but this varies from professor
to professor. Currently the font is probably set to 10pt, if
this is what you want, then go to step 9. below, if it isn't, at
the bottom left hand corner of the Modify
Style window click on Format,
and choose Font.... This will
open the Font dialog window in which
you can pick the font size you desire. When you are done click
OK.
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Finally click OK on the
Modify Style dialog window and you are
done.
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To insert any other footnote all you have to do are steps 1. and
2. above.
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In the next lesson I answer some frequently asked questions,
which might interest you, so go take a look!
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