Insert or Create Footnotes and Endnotes
Insert or Create Footnotes and Endnotes
Insert or Create Footnotes and Endnotes
Footnotes and endnotes are used in printed documents to explain, comment on, or provide
references for text in a document. You might use footnotes for detailed comments and endnotes
for citation of sources.
Note If you want to create a bibliography, you can find commands for creating and managing
sources and citations on the References tab in the Citations & Bibliography group.
In this article
About footnotes and endnotes
Insert a footnote or an endnote
Change the number format of footnotes or endnotes
Change the starting value for footnotes or endnotes
Create a footnote or endnote continuation notice
Change or remove a footnote or endnote separator
Delete a footnote or an endnote
3. Footnote text
4. Endnote text
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Insert Footnote
Insert Endnote
Footnote & Endnote Dialog Box Launcher
When you add, delete, or move notes that are automatically numbered, Word renumbers the
footnote and endnote reference marks.
Note If the footnotes in your document are numbered incorrectly, your document may contain
tracked changes. Accept the tracked changes so that Word will correctly number the footnotes
and endnotes.
1. In Print Layout view, click where you want to insert the note reference mark.
2. On the References tab, in the Footnotes group, click Insert Footnote or Insert
Endnote. Word inserts the note reference mark and places the insertion point in the text
area of the new footnote or endnote.
Keyboard shortcut To insert a footnote, press CTRL+ALT+F. To insert an endnote,
press CTRL+ALT+D.
By default, Word places footnotes at the end of each page and endnotes at the end of the
document.
3. Type the note text.
4. Double-click the footnote or endnote reference mark to return to the reference mark in the
document.
5. To change the location or format of footnotes or endnotes, click the Footnote & Endnote
Dialog Box Launcher, and do one of the following:
o To convert footnotes to endnotes or endnotes to footnotes, under Location choose
either Footnotes or Endnotes and then click Convert. In the Convert Notes
dialog box, click OK.
o To change the numbering format, click the desired formatting in the Number
format box and click Apply.
o To use a custom mark instead of a traditional number format, click Symbol next
to Custom mark, and then choose a mark from the available symbols. This will
not change the existing note reference marks. It will only add new ones.
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Delete a note
In the document, select the note reference mark of the footnote or endnote that you want
to delete, and then press DELETE.
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Applies To: Word 2010