I am getting tired of the tedious workarounds I’ve invented to try to fix the formatting for a Word docx that’s been compiled from Scrivener–particularly for footnotes and endnotes. Does anybody know how to make them into “real” footnotes that are at the proper superscript height and appear in the Word style formats as “footnote reference” or “endnote reference”?
I’m using the most updated version on MacOS.
When I compile to Word, I typically copy the entire contents of the resulting Word doc and paste it into a fresh Word doc. I think what this does is makes sure that your Normal template for Word docs is engaged and in charge of thinigs in the document.
So, I don’t know if that alone will do what you want here, but you might try doing it to see if it helps.
I doubt this will help.
The problem is that Scrivener does not set a paragraph style to footnotes in Compile. Because of that it has “No Style” that compiles to Word’s “Standard”. Which is normally used for the text body. Hence the footnotes in Word do not look like typical footnotes. And worse, their paragraph style can’t be updated just like that since they share it with the text body.
A footnote paragraph style is definitely lacking in Compile. At least for everyone compiling to word processors as for them every element must have a style. Which is not set automatically by the type of the element (unlike Markdown, HTML, etc.).
Ah, thank you so much for this tip!