Doing the conversion by hand can quickly get tedious, but there are a few things you can do to make the process easier. If you have a document with lots of endnotes, you may need them converted to regular text so that they can be used properly by another program. However, Word provides some flexibility on the actual placement of the note on the printed page. You can control exactly where the endnotes appear in your document by following the steps presented in this tip.įootnotes are normally placed at the bottom of the page on which the footnote is referenced. This tip explores why this can't be easily done in Word.Įndnotes are often used in technical and scholarly documents. If you've got a lot of short footnotes in a document, you might be looking for a way to save space by "crunching up" the footnotes by running them together in a single paragraph on each page. You can customize the way that your footnotes appear by using the information in this tip.Īble to add comments everywhere, except in endnotes? This seems to be a limitation in Word, but here are some ways to work around the problem. Most footnotes in a document start numbering with the number 1 and proceed from there through the rest of your document. This tip shows how easy it is to make the changes to the numbering system. Word is flexible on how it numbers your endnotes. You can change this line to anything you want by following the steps in this tip. When you print a document that uses footnotes, Word normally places a small line between the end of the document body text and the start of the footnotes on the page. You can control the separator that is used for such continuations. If that is the case, Word continues the footnote to a subsequent page. When you add a really long footnote to a document, it could be that the entire footnote might not fit on the page where the footnote reference appears. This tip explains how you can change the wording in that notice.Ĭhanging the Footnote Continuation Separator When a footnote needs to span two printed pages, Word prints a continuation notice at the end of the footnote being continued. If you want them to appear differently, then you need to apply some workarounds as described in this tip.Ĭhanging the Footnote Continuation Notice Unfortunately, changing them is not that easy. Here's a way you can add any extra characters you want, such as a set of brackets.Įver want to change the formatting of your footnotes? This tip explains what you can and can't do in Word.įootnote references normally appear as superscripted digits, both in the main body of your document and in the footnotes area. What it doesn't allow is for you to specify any extra characters that should be included with the reference. When you insert footnotes in a document, Word allows you to modify the formatting applied to the footnote references. There are a couple of ways you can approach this problem, as discussed in this tip. You may want Word to use a tab instead of the space. When you add a footnote to a document, Word's normal formatting adds a space after the footnote number and before the body of the footnote. Here's a discussion as to why and what you might do about it.Įndnotes appear at the end of the document, right? Not always, as Word provides a way that you can actually add as much information as you want after the endnotes. Word doesn't do footnotes within endnotes. This tip looks at how you can get round this problem. Problem is, you cannot use them together-Word doesn't allow you to add endnotes within a text box. Text boxes and endnotes are both great tools you can use within a document.
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