Hi, Geoff

>I have a customer that wants to be able to insert footnotes in text that needs to be stored and maintained within the database and reported. I am looking for ideas on ways in which this might be best represented on screen and later used in reporting.

If this is free text associated to records, you may find HTML useful. In this case you can handle footnotes as links. Integrating a control like DHTMLEdit into your VFP applications is not difficult at all, and could provide you a lot of flexibility.

You can take a look at a small example in:
http://www.salias.com.ar/download/dhtmlEditor.zip

Hope this helps,