Why, pray tell, does the latest version of MS Word have separate buttons labelled "Insert Footnote" and "Insert Citation"? Since I (and I suspect, most college professors) use the terms somewhat interchangeably, this is confusing. And I frankly don't understand what the program is doing when it "inserts citation"--it's not actually putting in a footnote.
I've been fielding a lot of student questions about citation lately.
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Huh. I've got the new version, but for Mac, and all I have is the old-fashioned "footnote" one. Odd.
Footnote creates the number and lets you type a note--Insert Citation refers to a built-in EndNote-lite feature in Mac Office 2008--after you have inserted a footnote, it will generate the citation for you.
Whoops, PS. WinWord 2007 and MacWord 2008 both have an EN-lite feature---but only MacWord supports using Insert Citation in footnotes (unless an update changed that). I think you are using Windows, where those things are probably next to each other?
I have been debating whether WinWord 2007's failure to support citations in footnotes means I should stop requiring them, as I do believe students should take advantage of the technology they have.
Dance: Thanks! That clears things up considerably.
You know what I miss? Auto Format, which I only ever used to change straight quotes to smart quotes so that things were unified.
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