• How To Add A Footnote In Word Doc
• How To Create A Footnote In Word

Footnotes and endnotes explain, comment on, or provide references for text in a document. Footnotes appear at the bottom, or the foot, of each page in a document, while endnotes appear at the end of a section or document. Other than that difference, they work the same way.

The trick is similar to adding Footnotes to a Word table. Use Endnotes, instead of Footnotes (assuming you don’t use Endnotes elsewhere in the document). Add a Continuous Section Break and change the Endnotes settings to put them at the end of the section. Here’s the above document with ‘Show All’ on so you can see how it’s done. Then, in the top menu, click on the References tab, and then in the second section from the left in the Ribbon, click on the Insert Footnote command (or use the keyboard shortcut which is Alt+Ctrl+F). Under the References tab, click Insert Footnote. This will make the superscript appear in the text, where you placed your cursor. The corresponding number will be automatically inserted in the footer of your text.

Footnotes and endnotes have two linked parts: the note reference mark (usually a number) and the corresponding footnote or endnote. Word automatically numbers footnote and endnote marks for you, so when you add, delete, or move notes, they are automatically renumbered.

Create Footnotes and Endnotes

1. Place your cursor where you want to insert the footnote or endnote.
2. Click the References tab.
3. Click the Insert Footnote or Insert Endnote button.

   A reference number is placed in the text, and a new footnote or endnote is created. Your text cursor is moved to the footnote or endnote, so you can type out your reference.

4. Type your footnote or endnote.

The footnote or endnote is inserted.

You can double-click a footnote/endnote’s number in the document’s text to jump to the note at the end of the page, section, or document. You can also double-click the footnote/endnote’s number at the end of the page, section, or document to jump directly to it in the text.

To convert a footnote to an endnote, right-click the footnote and select Convert to Endnote. To convert an endnote to a footnote, right-click it and select Convert to Footnote.

Modify Footnote and Endnote Properties

Once you’ve added footnotes and/or endnotes, you can customize the way they appear and behave.

1. Click the Footnotes group dialog box launcher on the References tab.

The Footnote and Endnote dialog box contains options to control how footnotes and endnotes appear.

• Location: Select either Footnotes or Endnotes, and then click the Location list arrow and choose where the footnotes and endnotes appear. You can also click the Convert button to convert all footnotes to endnotes, or vice versa.
• Footnote layout: Select whether footnotes appear with the same column layout as body text or act independently.
• Format: Choose a number format or custom symbol to mark footnotes or endnotes, select a starting number, and control whether numbering restarts on every page or new section.
• Apply changes: Choose whether the options you’re applying affect the whole document or just the selected sections.
2. Adjust the options the way you want.
3. Click Apply.

The selected options are applied to footnotes or endnotes, in the selected sections or across the entire document.

In the body of your document, create your regular footnote 3.

How To Add A Footnote In Word Doc

In the body of the document, just to the right of the marker for footnote 3, create a new footnote. The marker for this footnote is 4, and it should appear right next to the marker for footnote 3.

Select the new footnote marker (4) and format it as hidden text.

In the text for footnote 3 (at the bottom of the page), position the insertion pointer where you want the forced footnote to appear.

Choose Insert | Reference | Cross-reference to display the Cross-reference dialog box. (See Figure 1.)

Figure 1. The Cross-reference dialog box.

How To Create A Footnote In Word

In the Reference Type list, choose Footnote.

In the list at the bottom of the Cross-reference dialog box, choose footnote 4, then click Insert.

Within the text for footnote 3, select the cross-reference you just entered and format it the same as all your other footnote markers (superscript, etc.).