Can SOMEONE here answer a gorram computer question??
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 18:19
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I'm doing a paper, and I want to do a footnote. The computer won't let me simply TYPE a little raised number, I have to enter INSERT and select footnote, then it places the first little number where I want it, and the corresponding little number all the way at the end of my document. I can't drag or copy it to place it where I want/need to.
How the F**K does this S**T work??? "HELP" simply tells me to do what I've already tried!!!
I don't get it. When I step on the brake, my car doesn't give me options- it JUST SLOWS DOWN!!! My OLD typewriter would type WHAT I TYPED!!!! WHAT IS this S**T????
Do I have to PHOTOSHOP the freakin' tiny numbers on the pages? I could do that, but is seems stupidly excessive!!!!!
The laughing Chrisisall
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Calm down, Chris, let's see what we can do.
I'm not sure what program you're using, but instead of 'insert - footnote' have you tried 'insert - symbol' to see if the available glyphs have the superscript numbers you need? If they do not, try the symbols for a different font. If that's not an option or doesn't work, let us know.
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Kinda dumb question here, but... Just which brain damaged software are you using?
Not that I'd be any help anyway-- I use Notepad most of the time, myself, and MS-Works, vintage 1990 , the rest.
And for that matter, can't think of the last time I had to do a footnote.
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What word processer are you using?
Tried it in MS Works and got:
-- [!]Cannot copy or move a foot note marker here.
Highlight only the footnote text, not the footnote marker. --
WTF does that mean!? It's only one character big!
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If you declare something as a footnote, the program is going to get snippity about it. That's why I suggested using glyphs, instead. A glyph is just a character, a footnote has a programmed-in set of rules.
Perhaps the needed glyphs can be copied from here if you can't find them in the symbols menu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subscript_and_superscript [/sig]
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Thanks for the responses my peeps!
I actually solved the problem- the second footnote # can't be moved, but everything can be moved to IT on the last page it artificially creates. Then I just have a blank page where my last page was GOING to be.
What a dumass way to do it. 
The laughing Chrisisall
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Quote:MS Works word processor.
Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
Kinda dumb question here, but... Just which brain damaged software are you using?
The laughing Chrisisall
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:MS Works word processor.
Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
Kinda dumb question here, but... Just which brain damaged software are you using?
Works??? well there's your problem. never could get that thing to work. move to a real word processor.
i suggest open office.org ( www.openoffice.org )
it's fully compatible with microsoft office, it has the ablity to save things in .pdf format built in, and.... it's completely free.
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Originally posted by optimus1998:Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:MS Works word processor.
Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
Kinda dumb question here, but... Just which brain damaged software are you using?
Works??? well there's your problem. never could get that thing to work. move to a real word processor.
i suggest open office.org ( www.openoffice.org )
it's fully compatible with microsoft office, it has the ablity to save things in .pdf format built in, and.... it's completely free.
Make Cartoons, Not War
- Sue Blu
Once, while having sex in a tractor-trailer, part of Chuck Norris' sperm escaped and got into the engine. We now know this truck as Optimus Prime.
Did you get open office from fan fiction.net? Because that's where i got it from, and i got the whole pacage FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
I'm doing a paper, and I want to do a footnote. The computer won't let me simply TYPE a little raised number, I have to enter INSERT and select footnote, then it places the first little number where I want it, and the corresponding little number all the way at the end of my document. I can't drag or copy it to place it where I want/need to.
How the F**K does this S**T work??? "HELP" simply tells me to do what I've already tried!!!
I don't get it. When I step on the brake, my car doesn't give me options- it JUST SLOWS DOWN!!! My OLD typewriter would type WHAT I TYPED!!!! WHAT IS this S**T????
Do I have to PHOTOSHOP the freakin' tiny numbers on the pages? I could do that, but is seems stupidly excessive!!!!!
The laughing Chrisisall
Umm, i would, but, (whispers), i don't speak computer.
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