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Footnotes and section break

In my thesis, I included section breaks at the beginning of each chapter so footnotes start at 1 each time. However, I want to change the layout of one single page to landscape in one chapter but keep the footnotes continuous - but with footnote 1 at the beginning of the chapter, not with the beginning of the document. Anyone knows how can I fix this? Is there any way to change the layout of a page without introducing a section break? 
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A quick question before proceeding:

Which section break did you apply? Is it Next Page, Continuous, Even Page or Odd Page?

Check the following thread which discusses about similar issue and see if it helps:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-word/ms-word-2010-footnote-numbering-wont-continue/5569fdc5-28d1-479c-b009-8f285caf1203

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Hi Daniel

Thanks for the answer. The thread was helpful but it shows that apparently there is no solution to this problem. I used Next Page break. 
Basically, the document is structured this way:

Chapter 1: Footnotes go from 1 to 69.
Section Break.
Chapter 2: Footnotes go from 1 to 29. Then I introduce a section break to change the layout of one page to landscape to include an image, then another section break to return to portrait layout. The footnotes after this restart at 1 because of the section break, even if I'm still in Chapter 2. So I select continuous footnotes and the footnotes after the image start at 70 instead of at 30 - they are continuous with Chapter 1. What I need them is to be continuous with Chapter 2.  

I reckon there's no solution to this problem?

Many thanks,
Ignacio

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When you have a document with multiple sections, in the Footnote and Endnote dialog where you can specify the formatting of the footnotes and set whether the numbering restarts at each section, there is an Apply changes to drop down that should let you select This section.

 

So with the selection in your Landscape page, set the numbering to be Continuous and select This section from the above drop down.  Repeat that proces with the following page (assuming that it is still in Chapter 2).

 

When you get to Chapter 3, reset the numbering for that Section to Restart.

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But note that keeping different restart options (for footnotes and/or endnotes) in different sections doesn't work well... This has been observed since the "Apply to" option was added to the Footnote and Endnote dialog box. The situation may have improved in Word 2013 (I haven't tested in that version yet).
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