Editing footnotes in legacy tables

For legacy tables, you can use the Edit Footnotes dialog to enter and modify footnote text and font settings, change footnote markers, and selectively hide or delete footnotes.

When you insert a new footnote in a legacy table, the Edit Footnotes dialog automatically opens. To use the Edit Footnotes dialog to edit existing footnotes (without creating a new footnote):

Marker. By default, standard footnote markers are sequential letters or numbers, depending on the table properties settings. To assign a special marker, simply enter the new marker value in the Marker column. Special markers are not affected when you renumber footnotes or switch between numbers and letters for standard markers. The display of numbers or letters for standard markers and the subscript or superscript position of footnote markers are controlled by the Footnotes tab of the Table Properties dialog. See the topic Table properties: notes for more information.

To change a special marker back to a standard marker, right-click on the marker in the Edit Footnotes dialog, select Footnote Marker from the pop-up menu, and select Standard marker in the Footnote Marker dialog box.

Footnote. The content of the footnote. The display reflects the current font and background settings. The font settings can be changed for individual footnotes using the Format subdialog. See the topic Footnote font and color settings for more information. A single background color is applied to all footnotes and can be changed in the Font and Background tab of the Cell Properties dialog. See the topic Cell properties: Font and background for more information.

Visible. All footnotes are visible by default. Deselect (clear) the Visible checkbox to hide a footnote.