Footnotes

Footnotes on the Global Collaborative

Many of the documents that we publish on the Global Collaborative are academic texts that have footnotes. The standard way to present footnotes on the Web is to have a numbered link in the text, which takes you to the footnote at the end of the document. At that point, there is a numbered link which will take you back to the correct point in the body of the document. [1]

Currently, the on-line editor that we use for the Global Collaborative does not allow you to insert footnotes.  So you cannot create footnotes directly on the Global Collaborative.  We have developed this work around.  Unfortunately, it only works on the Windows operating system. We know that it doesn’t work on Macintosh. We have not tested it on any other systems.

The following steps will walk you through the process of creating a document on the Global Collaborative that contains footnotes.

1. Create your document, with footnotes, in Microsoft Word on a PC running Windows, or Open Office (NeoOffice) on a Macintosh.
   
2. Save that document as a html file.  From the [File] menu, choose [Save as Web page…]. Change the file type to “Web page (.htm, .html). This will save your file with the .htm extension.
3. Open the .htm file in Internet Explorer.
4. Check that your footnotes work. If they do, select all the text (including footnotes) and copy it all.
5. Log onto the Global Collaborative and navigate to where you want your new page to live.
6. Create a new, empty Rich Document.
7. Paste your text (including footnotes) into the Rich Document.
8.  Save your Rich Document.
9. Check that the footnotes work.
10. Format the Rich Document as you normally would.

Please note that the footnotes will not renumber themselves once they are on the Global Collaborative.  So if you need to move or delete a footnote in a long list of footnotes, it might be easiest to edit your original file and go through the whole process again.

[1] This is an example of a footnote.