This can be done by inserting the shortcode into the desired location and saving the changes on the page. You can make a lot of footnotes in the text. You can add footnotes to the text using the shortcode: notefootnote content /note. How to Make Changes to All Notes at One Time. I am slowly driving myself to insanity with this. Changes Needed to Word’s Default Note Format. There has to be something I'm missing, some solution I've overlooked. I cannot even imagine the tedious, time-murdering job re-writing all the footnotes in endnote format from a blank document would entail. Pressbooks can also automatically convert your Microsoft Word or Open Office footnotes or chapter endnotes. I use the font-variant in the hopes that the readers will finally support it. First, you need to download, install, activate, and configure the footnote plugin. I've tried every option combination in that section, with no results. To create a footnote in your book, open the. When it is 'in flow', it disrupts the text and cannot easily be skipped. The reader can choose to read them or ignore it. Even as an endnote they work (with back-link of course). If I put it in the text flow, I need to search for it and then convert. hide the entire footnote) rather than strictly what you have requested. Now you can insert your desired endnotes into the frame with no problem. Word asks if you are sure you want to convert. The Text Box tab of the Format Text Box dialog box. Make sure that the Text Box tab is selected. In other words, Microsoft Word developers make the document change to do what you expect (i.e. Word displays the Format Text Box dialog box. If this get supported, my ePUBs are 'done'. However Word detects that you’ve changed the Footnote Text style to Hidden and not only changes that style but also the preceding references. Some readers automatically uses popups for proper designed footnotes. I still use them in the hopes that in the future there will be proper support. Just because they 'forgot' to properly implement footnotes in the ePUB specs is not a reason not to use them. (I understand perfectly that our customers may not agree :-) We should design eBooks, not facsimiles of printed ones. I try to confine them to academic references - necessary for completeness, but rarely actually read! Anything else that is worth reading can go in the text flow. If you compose in Word, with its comprehensive footnote capabilities, a Calibre conversion to EPUB does a pretty good job of constructing functional links.īut foot/end notes are a blasted nuisance when reading an eBook.