I am working on a document that HAS to have line numbering. I need the line numbering to continue within my footnotes. Everything that I have found says that Word just doesn't line number in footnotes. I can do it in WordPerfect so I know there has
to be some way, whether macro or whatever that will do this for me. I am using Word 2007 but have access to Word 2010 if needed. Anyone?
To do this in Word, instead of using the Line Numbering feature, you would need to anchor a text box in the header of the document and that text box would have to be located in the left margin and extend down the page. However, you would have to have the text (including that in the Footnotes) all in the one font size and not have the paragraphs formatted to have space before or after them unless you did not mind if that space was numbered (the space would however need to equate to a single of multiples of a single line. Such "line numbering" would restart on each page.
The following screenshot is a comparison between such line numbering (on the left) and the line numbering that is applied by the use of that facility in Word.
