You can also insert footnotes by clicking the Insert Footnote Directly icon on the Insert toolbar. In the Type area, select Footnote or Endnote.

) and select the character that you want to use for the footnote. If you select Character, click the browse button (.

In the Numbering area, select the format that you want to use.

Click in your document where you want to place the anchor of the note.

Select that entry and select Paste as rich text.

When pasting the content into another document, you'll notice that the footnote content is displayed in the list of web clipboard items with a hashtag. To ensure that you are copying and pasting text as well as the associated footnote, be sure to use our web clipboard. If you copy and paste text that contains a footnote, however, the footnote may not be copied and pasted by default. Note that when you make a copy of a document, footnotes will be copied as well. When you download a document, footnotes will appear at the bottom of the page. To delete a footnote, delete the footnote from the body of the document, and this will delete all content for that footnote. Or, you can go to the File menu, and select Download file as. If you'd like to see how the footnotes will look when printed, go to the File menu, and select Print.

When you're finished, click back into the body of your document.įootnotes appear in the document margin on your screen, and at the bottom of the page when printed.

Type your footnote in the document margin.

In the place you want to insert a footnote, click the Insert menu and select Footnote.

To insert footnotes in your document, follow these steps:

Word footnote endnote format