Table Footnote question

[Tammy Van Boening]

Ok, so, scrap the last statement - it's because of the fact that the
footnotes are numbered based on the column on the page. On the first
page of the table, the first footnote is placed in Col 3, the second,
third, and fourth are placed in Col 4 and they are fine. The footnote on
the SECOND page is placed in Col 1, so it becomes "1" and the others are
renumbered accordingly - but that won't work - I don't want my users to
have to scroll down to page 2 to see "1", then back up to page 1 to see
"2", "3", and "4" - I want the footnote numbering to appear in the order
a user would scan the page - left to right, then top to bottom as they
read - and for the life of me, FM seems stuck on basing the numbers on
columns!

Any advice?

TVB

Tammy Van Boening
Senior Technical Writer 
Health Language, Inc. 
Office: +1 (303) 307-4400 x254 
www.healthlanguage.com 


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From: Tammy Van Boening 
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 1:26 PM
To: FrameUsers List (framers at lists.frameusers.com)
Subject: Table Footnote question

I have a table that spans more than two pages. I need to insert
Footnotes into this table. I have scoured FM's OLH and can't find the
answer to this question. When I insert footnotes on page 1 of 4 of the
table, the footnotes are numbered based on the column on the page. For
example, if I place a footnote in Col 1 on page 1 and it is footnote
"1", then when I place a footnote in Col 2 of the table on page 1, it is
numbered "2" as I would expect. However, if I then scroll down the page
a bit and place a third footnote on page 1, but back in Col 1, this
footnote is NOT numbered "3" - instead, it becomes "2" and what was
footnote #2 now becomes footnote #3. Ok, I was wanting to place
footnotes markers sequentially from left to right, top to bottom (the
way people read my English manuals), but instead, it's top to bottom,
then left to right the way FM does it - Fine, I will deal with that but
what I can't figure out is the footnote numbering on the subsequent
pages of the table. If I place footnote IN THE SAME TABLE, but on a
different page, like Page #2, then the Footnote numbering starts over -
instead of being #4, it is #1 again. ARGH! What is FM NOT recognizing
the continuation of the footnotes as I am placing them in the same
table? 

I have looked at Format > Document > Numbering for the doc. Specifically
for Table Footnote, but there are no options like there are for just
Footnote. 

I need to be able to add sequential footnotes across a multiple page
table and for the life of me, since FM controls the footnote numbering
(and the FM OLH makes that painfully clear), I am about to resort to
manually numbering - but that would be a maintenance nightmare. 

TIA,

TVB

Tammy Van Boening
Senior Technical Writer 
Health Language, Inc. 
Office: +1 (303) 307-4400 x254 
www.healthlanguage.com 



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