In those days, footnotes had to be inserted manually at the end of a page. If you later added or deleted text that threw off a page's length, you had to reposition the footnotes yourself. Even worse, if you added or deleted a footnote at the beginning of a document, you had to move and then renumber all the rest. Fortunately, applications are getting more powerful every day, and, as a result, footnotes have received a big boost in functionality.
Footnotes are no longer a frustrating manual effort.
Not only do they stay out of your way while you're editing your document, they also position themselves properly on the page and track numbering all by themselves. We'll go over the basics of how to use footnotes and how you can customize their appearance. Then we'll show you how to make permanent changes to your WordPerfect default template so you can easily use your customized format with any document you create. Whenever you create a footnote, WordPerfect uses these styles as the framework for the text, just like other styles you may have created to set up repetitive elements of your document. Special counters, also included in both styles, handle the numbering of the footnotes.