Is That Legal?

I thought academics generally used Latex for writing. That's what I use, but I'm in computer science. Are lawyers not so lucky?

Latex is a pain to set up, but once you have everything the way you like it's amazing. Especially with bibliographies.

Sorry, I don't know the answer to your question. I use Word a lot, but not for anything involving a lot of numbering, either in section headings or bibliographies.

This one is sorta simple for geeks. "Footnotes" is a style. "Endnotes" is a style. Click the little "Aa" button (top left) when you're clicked on the page inside a footnote. In the new panel that opens when you click the "Aa" button, footnotes is highlighted. Drop that list down and choose "modify" and then modify it. Then be sure to click "add to template". The footnotes will reformat.

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To regularize the font/spacing of endnotes:

1. Under the "View" menu, choose "Normal" layout.

2. Under the "View" menu, choose "Footnotes": that will bring up a smaller window at the bottom with your endnotes in it.

3. Select all the endnotes in the endnote window (i.e., select everything in that window).

4. Change the font and line-spacing to what you prefer.

To make endnote references in endnotes appear as normal text:

There are a couple ways of doing this but I'd do it this way.

1. Select all of the endnotes in the endnote window (as described above).

2. Under the "Format" menu, select "Font."

3. Uncheck the "Superscript" box (you may have to click the box twice to clear it).

4. Click "OK." That will clear any superscript formatting out of the endnotes, including in the numbers.

5. If you have used superscripts in the body of the endnotes (e.g., "As Einstein observed, e = mc².") then you will have to restore those superscripts manually.

To add a period after endnote references in endnotes:

1. Select all of the endnotes in the endnote window (as described above).

2. Under the "Edit" menu choose "Replace."

3. In the "Find" box write "^e" (this means find endnote numbers).

4. In the "Replace" box write "^&." (this means replace what you found with what you found plus a period).

5. Choose "Replace All". Word will add the periods to the endnote numbers.

6. When it asks you whether you want to search the rest of the document, say "No" (if you say "Yes" it will add periods to the endnote references in the actual text, which you don't want).

I'm glad it worked. Numbering ANYTHING in Word is a PITA (pain in the ...) and Word itself is the weak sister in the Office Suite (excel is the jewel). Lawyers usually remind everyone how easy WordPerfect was to use.

The footnotes/endnotes issues are always topics in the Word help groups and are easy to Google. Since Word 2003, the "Aa" button (you might be tempted to drink when using Word, so they give you "AA" up front) has been a real help. The trick is: click in the troublesome area and THEN click the "Aa" (styles) button.

They say that if you understand styles, you own Word. I think a great bottle of Merlot is better than styles, but it's late...

Again, glad it worked.

"Lawyers usually remind everyone how easy WordPerfect was to use."

Not just lawyers. And not just "was" -- it still is, and it keeps getting better. For example, since version 11, Wordperfect can save documents in PDF format, without the need for any external PDF creation tools. And the most recent version, Wordperfect 13 or "X3", can open and edit PDF files as well.