Adobe InDesign CS5 - Manual (Page 198)

192 USING INDESIGN
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Footnote split across column.
If Allow Split Footnotes is turned on, you can still prevent an individual footnote from splitting by placing the insertion
point in the footnote text, choosing Keep Options from the Paragraph panel menu, and selecting the Keep Lines
Together and All Lines In Paragraph options. If the footnote contains multiple paragraphs, use the Keep With Next X
Lines option in the first paragraph of the footnote text. You can choose Type > Insert Break Character
> Column Break
to control where the footnote is split.
Rule Above Specify the location and appearance of the footnote divider line that appears above the footnote text. A
divider line (also called a “separator line”) also appears above any footnote text continued in a separate frame. The
options you select apply to either the First Footnote In Column or Continued Footnotes, whichever is selected in the
menu. These options are similar to those that appear when you specify a paragraph rule. If you want to remove the
footnote divider line, deselect Rule On.
Delete footnotes
❖ To delete a footnote, select the footnote reference number that appears in text, and then press Backspace or Delete.
If you delete only the footnote text, the footnote reference number and footnote structure remain.
Work with footnote text
As you edit footnote text, note the following:
• When the insertion point is in footnote text, choosing Edit > Select All selects all the footnote text for that footnote,
but no other footnote or text.
• Use the arrow keys to navigate among footnotes.
• Footnote numbering is not continued across documents in a book. If you don’t want numbering to restart in each
document with the book, you need to change the Start At value manually in each document after the editing is final.
• In Story Editor, you can click the footnote icon to expand or collapse a footnote. You can expand or collapse all
footnotes by choosing View
> Story Editor > Expand All Footnotes or Collapse All Footnotes.
• You can select and apply character and paragraph formatting to footnote text. You can also select and change the
appearance of the footnote reference number, but the recommended method is using the Document Footnote
Options dialog box.
• When you cut or copy text that includes the footnote reference number, the footnote text is also added to the
clipboard. If you copy the text to a different document, the footnotes in that text use the characteristics of the new
document’s numbering and layout appearance.
• If you accidentally delete the footnote number at the start of the footnote text, you can add it back by placing the
insertion point at the beginning of the footnote text, right-clicking (Windows) or Control-clicking (Mac
OS), and
choosing Insert Special Character > Markers > Footnote Number.
• Text wrap has no effect on footnote text.