Adobe InDesign CS4 - Manual (Page 187)

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Allow Split Footnotes Select this option if you want footnotes to break across a column when the footnote exceeds the
amount of space available for it in that column. If splitting is not allowed, the line containing the footnote reference
number moves to the next column, or the text becomes overset.
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 and
the divider line that 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 don’t want a rule to appear, 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.
Updated 18 June 2009